Quotes About Understanding

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

and Homan learned a language of pointing and jabbing and fist closing and finger flicking, frowning and shrugging and waving and saluting, brow raising and eye narrowing and lip pursing and head tilting. His anger ran off, and happiness moved in.

The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.

when teaching or parenting, you must always try to see things from the child's point of view and never use fear as a shortcut for education.

Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal.

I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. You're my friend, even if you've hurt me, he said. I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

A lo largo de esa semana comprendió que los libros podían ser una tabla de salvación en un océano de silencio y pena.

Saber es mucho más que conocer, como conocer es mucho más que calcular y poder predecir. Saber es saborear y, como diremos enseguida, también amar.

El Ser es hablante antes que pensante.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.

Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know.

Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Don't you love your mother, dear? I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love…. —Emily Dickinson

You're spooky, he said, You knew what I was thinking. That not spooky, she said, That's married.