Quotes About Understanding

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

Are they even capable of love?

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn't mean you cannot see them.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.