Quotes About Understanding

Don't you worry about other people's problems.

Supongo que en una mujer hasta el odio es una forma del amor.

Was it as if a girl sound asleep, saying nothing, hearing nothing, said everything to and heard everything from an old man who, for a woman, was no longer a man?

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.

A wise person is one who knows how to make complicated matters simple.

Hurt people hurt people.

Life with another person is always difficult.

All kinds of daily interactions would be altered if we suspended our insufficiently informed conclusions over why others act the way they do.

You're a library of me.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable.

The experience of listening to an hour's music you barely know in a dead language you do not understand is a strange falling and rising experience. For minutes at a time you are walking deep into it, you seem to understand. Then, without knowing how or when exactly, you discover you have wandered away, bored or tired from the effort, and now you are nowhere near the music.

you're lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You're lucky that you're happy, that you know how to be happy, that you're a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others

Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

Great care was taken at all times to protect me from reality. They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.

We don't always have to judge difference or categorize it or criminalize it. We don't have to take it personally. We can also just let it be.

she was someone who lived in her own dreamscape, who presumed that everyone around her was at all times feeling exactly as she was.

When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers.