Quotes About Understanding

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka

Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the right books.' 'Some were, some weren't. You figure out which are which.' 'How do you figure it out?' 'At first by how you feel.' 'And later?' 'By reading what's there on the page and also what's not.' 'Between the lines,' she said. 'Under the lines,' he said. -Annamaria and Timothy -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 328 chapter 49

she loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.

Curtis' mother always said that the better you know others, the better you will know yourself, and that in the fullest sharing of experience, we learn the wisdom of the world.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self interest.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us.

He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was full of surprises and that despair made no sense when one had no understanding of the purpose—and strange possibilities—of existence.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them to be sure they understood what he meant: I WOULD DIE OF LONELY.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

pity very often—not always—comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt.

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

she sees through yoy and knowsyour truest heart, but loves you anyway, [...]

At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answers...God doesn't shout, He wispers, and in the wispers is the way.

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment, and only he could bring them into harmony.

What most people call truth is merely the surface, and under it lies a great depth of truth that they do not perceive.

If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place for me in her life.