Quotes About Understanding

I need to figure things out. But how can you figure out something that doesn't have a shape? It's the shapeless things - like love, like attraction - that are the hardest to map -Rhiannon

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. -The Escalator, A Love Story

And what I want to tell him is that now I understand why people want to share a life with someone else. I see what all the fuss is about. It's not about sex or being in a couple when you hang out with other couples. It's not for ego or gratification or fear of loneliness. It's about this, whatever this is. -Rhiannon

Zakochanie si? w drugiej osobie nie oznacza, ?e wiesz, co ta druga osoba czuje, wiesz tylko, co ty czujesz

is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows what to call me in relation to you.

Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E eu quero que minha vida seja real.

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

We know it is sometimes hard to receive someone's truth. Not as hard as the telling, but still hard if you care about how your response will be taken.

can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

Taylor is a boy, and you are my best friend. Taylor is a date, and you are my calendar. Understood?

David Lipsky: Why aren't you married at thirty-four? David Foster Wallace: You first. David Lipsky: Um-I think it's hard to fill that role...to cast it and to fill it when you know it's for thirty or forty years...someone who, whatever mental landscape you're in, they're going to be in it too, you need someone who'll fit any landscape you can imagine.

The point of books was to combat loneliness

The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react.

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid; but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Someone might say, I don't understand music; but most people experience music emotionally and would agree that music is an abstraction. You don't need to put music into words right away--you just listen. Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words.

You can tell all the stories you want, but you still haven't gotten across what the experience was like. It's like telling somebody a dream. It doesn't give them the dream. So

Como en el resto de las tendencias destructivas, el hecho de que el empleo del maltrato tenga una lógicas adaptativa subyacente no significa que debamos aceptarlo, desearlo o descuidar su erradicación. Por el contrario, una mayor comprensión de la lógica que subyace a tales tácticas y de los contextos en que se producen puede llevar a métodos más eficaces para reducirlas o eliminarlas.

The implications of these fundamental trends in human mating psychology for a lasting relationship are profound. To maximize the chances of preserving a long-term bond, couples would do well to remain faithful; produce children together; secure ample economic resources; act kind, generous, and understanding; and attend to their mate's sexual and emotional desires. These actions do not guarantee a successful relationship, but they increase the odds substantially.

el conflicto en la pareja es la regla, no la excepción.

What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known?

Now as I began to sort through his "effects" it occurred to me how little I had really known him … I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.

Mathematics. It soothed, it allowed you, once you had perceived it, to breathe.