Quotes About Understanding

Aprendi com a minha própria filha que não precisamos estar acordados para chorar.

Truth expands until it can choke you.

She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

Actually, she liked math. She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

You don't rough them up.

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

But he wondered how very different two worlds had to be before they kept people apart.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. •

Memories aren't stored in the heart or hte head or even the soul, but in the spaces between any given two people.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it and if you didn't, you will never understand.

Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm special. It just means I am willing to get close to the things that make people uncomfortable.

You see, I tell myself. Here is proof. I've known Christina my whole life. And yes, maybe there are differences between us—socioeconomic, political, racial—but that doesn't mean we can't connect, human to human, friend to friend.

I've always wondered whether she sees what I do when I look at her.

He Just Rode In On Your Wagon. Calm Your Horses ~ Anna

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more cleary than others. -Plain Truth

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Someone has said that enemies are just people whose stories we don't know. I see a lot of truth in that. The more other people's stories are hidden from us, the easier it is for us to view them as enemies. But, when we begin to learn their stories, we recognize all we share in common with them and we delight in how the unique beauty of their traditions enriches our own lives.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.