Quotes About Understanding

Psychology is a terrible a word.

For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it.

It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was—and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.

I]t is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can truly understand us.

Quizá la buena suerte se parecía a la mala suerte en que tardabas un tiempo en asimilarla.

understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.

We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

man's reason never follows the redemption route.

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

You can leave a server a bad tip only when you've worked in a restaurant and know what it's like.

If you ever want to get laid again, you'll promise me." Andy felt himself tear up. "Okay.

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

nineteenth-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat pointed out that just because something is less noticed doesn't mean it's less important than things that are obvious: In the department of economy, an act,

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.