Quotes About Understanding

Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.

Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.

when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.

man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

So he left her, because in his heart he feared that she was a woman with a divided nature—and he did not realize that all women are creatures of divided nature.

Lo llamaban convivencia: vivir unos junto a otros en armonía, sin importar sus creencias, puesto que el enemigo no es aquel que cree en un dios; el enemigo es la ignorancia y la gente que no cree en nada y no se preocupa por nada.

Meluzina tragédiája – bármilyen nyelv beszélje is el, bármilyen dallam énekelje is meg – az, hogy egy férfi mindig többet ígér, mint amennyit tenni képes egy nÅ'ért, akit nem tud megérteni.

A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.

quando se reconhece que o amado é tudo menos perfeito, tal constitui um verdadeiro teste ao amor.

I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different.

C'est compliqué, c'est le passé, pas important.

On ne pardonne pas à son ami ses erreurs, on ne les excuse pas non plus. On les comprend.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.