Quotes About Understanding

He's never once asked for painful personal details, Mark. He'll take what you give him and just nod. He sees and won't cross uninvited this unbroken center-line between your business and his. Keeps his own counsel. Never ever presses. It's one reason he's so universally loved.

It's time for our warring tribes to understand a simple reality: that to embrace illiberalism and intolerance is to court dissolution.

Paradoxically, we come to know God best not by looking at God exclusively, but by looking at God and then looking at ourselves—then looking at God, and then again looking at ourselves. This is also the way we best come to know our selves. Both God and self are mostly fully known in relationship to each other.

If you tell your prospect how bad things are in a way they can identify with and relate to, then they know that you know the way it really is because that is the way it really is for them.

A problem shared is a problem doubled

No,' said Vintar sternly, 'he has defiled himself. It is important to understand that.

You broke the problem down and examined the component parts. Most men attempt to solve riddles by allowing their minds to leap like monkeys from branch to branch, without ever realizing that it is the root that needs examining. Always remember that, young prince. The method works with men as well as it works with riddles.

Don't volunteer anything. Let the other person do all the talking. Most people can't stand silence, so they have to fill it up with words.

Because love cannot be discussed objectively.

Dr. Obama had that same trick of looking at you so sadly that you felt sorrier for her than for yourself.

I don't get revenge. Hurting back just means two people are hurt.

We'll never really tame this girl. We'll just learn to live with her." She used to say that a lot, even after I kept reminding her, "I'm not Kylee, I'm Kyle! I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a boy now.

If it wasn't for Jamie staying with me all the time, I don't know what I would have done. He says it was hard because he knew what Mom wasn't telling me, but that's when Jamie and I started being friends.

think I loved my Danny more. And I think I know why.

You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.

I don't understand hook-ups, but I don't like touching very much, so maybe that's why.

There are people who read books and there are people that make noise.

For the chronically illiterate, a photo-op is worth much, much more than a thousand words.

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you?

She sat across from him at the kitchen table at three o'clock in the morning, while he stared in silence or talked or wept, and she took when she could a piece of his sorrow and stored it for him in her own heart.

her husband had been the best sort of partner, one who understood what it meant to respect somebody and love them for who they are and not wish for them to be different, or need them to be different, that had been the key to their long and happy life together, but, also, her husband had been natively cheerful and essentially kind, and those things had helped a lot

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves