Quotes About Understanding

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

This wood," Yam told him, "is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?" "Would I understand more if I did?" Hume asked. "You might," said Yam. "Both of us might." "Then it's worth a try," Hume agreed. They went together down the left-hand fork.

Anyway, Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it.

Nobody ever gets praised for the right reasons.

In fact, Cat was fairly sure Tonino was feeling just the way Cat had felt himself when he first came to Chrestomanci Castle, and Cat could not get over the annoyance of having someone have feelings that were his.

In this world people are used to doing by magic what we do by science.

Seeing Seb's jeering face, it came to her that Seb had always loved her the way most people bear a grudge.

The best advice for dealing with cats is: Always greet them politely. Don't make an unnecessary fuss over them. Be on the alert for signs they want to communicate with you. Never, ever laugh at them! If you're lucky, you might just find that your cat will decide that you are a magical person worthy of attention. Or then again, maybe they'd just like some fish.

How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. But they are shapes, they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.

I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]

She's so sensitive, she's almost able to read their minds. . .. She becomes them. . .. She has a precise and very special gift, a way of observing and understanding animals that's rare, a sixth sense. . .. It's been this way since she was little. In

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

Antonina wondered if humans might use the same metaphor and picture the war days as a sort of hibernation of the spirit, when ideas, knowledge, science, enthusiasm for work, understanding, and love—all accumulate inside, [where] nobody can take them from us. Of

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On Jan's daily

According to Jan, The personality of animals will develop according to how you raise, train, educate them—you can't generalize about them. Just like people who own dogs and cats will tell you, no two are exactly alike. Who knew that a rabbit could learn to kiss a human, open doors, or give us reminders about dinnertime? Wicek's

in doing the finite [we] may perceive the infinite.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.