Quotes About Understanding

Therefore we feel it is important that our children be taught this simple tenet: Hate people on an individual basis only—you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

Likewise, she will know that if I start watching reality TV, quoting Dr. Phil, riding roller coasters, and seem to have forsaken bacon in favor of anything soy—it's time to Get the Pillow. That's what—well, I can't tell you who but she's a nurse—says they all say when they've got a particularly cantankerous patient on their wing.

When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realize his first name was ALWAYS.

we must be tolerant with ourselves and allow ourselves some deviations from the straight line we set up to follow. Even more we must allow others the same prerogative.

One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives," Franklin once wrote. His sister is his other Half.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

I'm going to do better than that.' An adrenalin rush of determination accompanied her words. 'I'm going to find out why he is the way he is, and make his life better.

The pain of losing people you love is the price of the ticket for getting to know them at all.

Time itself is cyclic, and by the spiral of its returning seasons we review the progress and growth of our own understanding.

Experience is what you get when you didn't know what you wanted.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can't.

Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.

Are you in love with me, the me I am right now? Well not right now, he said, brooding. Right now you're kinda mean. -Tara and Logan

We weren't always here for her, Ford said quietly. So we're a little overprotective. I won't apologize for that. But she's everything to me, and I'm not a complete idiot. I can see that you're everything to her. All I want is for her to be someone's everything. Done, Nick said without hesitation.

Unfortunately, he was a man through and through, and therefore had a penis, which meant that there'd be no reasoning with him.

He needs to be the kind of guy who thinks you're beautiful when you're not. So, for example, he wouldn't care if you live in yoga pants even though you hate yoga.

A hint about women,' Mick said to Cliff. 'Never in the history of all history has telling a woman to calm down ever calmed one down.

Sometimes the best thing in life is finding that one person who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses and still thinks you're completely amazing.

You're not a job to me, Lily. Not even close. You're more. And I think I'm more to you too. I think it's not that you don't feel anything, it's that you feel too much. I scare you.

Let me in.' 'Come to the door.' You always demanding like that? No wonder she isn't answering. Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.