Quotes About Understanding

Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.

You and me, I said,we both got the same kind of hurt inside us. She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

Feelings are never right or wrong," she said after a moment. "They just are.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

The spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he. There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us but that we grow wise. -attributed to Surak

We knew you were hurting," Gelert said. "But sometimes—that idiom about being there for somebody, actually just means to be there. Doing anything, saying anything, sometimes you know it'll hurt them worse than just being quiet, and being close.

There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him

There's no way that can be the river, Rhiow said. Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central-- Saash said. It's backward, Rhiow snapped, thank you very much, I know all about it. Is it? Saash said. Which direction are you coming at it from? Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.

Meowing is not counted here, since cats rarely seem to meow at each other. That type of vocalization is usually a pidgin language used for getting human's attention: the cat equivalent of Just talk to them clearly and loudly and they'll get what you mean sooner or later.

They took her intent and read that too, turning it into fact.

You set, Bones? Ouch, McCoy said. I assume that pun was meant to make me feel better, or else accidental.

The Spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that unanticipated developments often lead to unintended consequences.

It took me even longer to understand that, once you have reached a certain age, you can no longer suffer one loss at a time, that loss is cumulative and, with each new experience of it, all your old losses will join forces and come back en masse to haunt you again.

He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

There are few things that cannot be put right by love, and there is no shortage of that here.

Kita semua memiliki kesedihan kita sendiri, dan walaupun kontur, bobot, serta dimensinya berbeda-beda bagi setiap orang, warna kesedihan adalah sama bagi kita semua.