Quotes About Understanding

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

Man, I like you. I wish you could like me.

People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others.

I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.

Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.

The cruelty of children comes as news to no one.

Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.

Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well also be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for telling one's secrets or the room for sulking or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness...

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.

I have sired a well-adapted man (read: adapted to everyone except his father).

Most of the people I meet, including my daughter, have only the most trivial grasp of time.

Getting old," I said with some restraint, "means to be done with compassion.

The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love

But love flowed into the apology, to coddle and mollify the guilt.

Animalele nu sunt lipsite de sentimente… Dac? n-aÈ™ avea lâng? mine ceva viu, care s? se miÈ™te, n-aÈ™ putea suporta singur?tatea.