Quotes About Understanding

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.

Whenever our ideals are so stagnant that they exclude relationships that might contest our accustomed understanding of the world as well as what we, as individuals, are all about, we ourselves begin to stagnate. We slow down our evolution because we reject the very lovers who have the most to offer to us for the simple reason that they approach life from a stance that has nothing to do with our ideals.

As we have discovered, although on one level psychoanalysis allows us to attain higher levels of perception and self-awareness, on another level it is an exercise in becoming reconciled to the idea that we can never entirely know ourselves.

Looking backward should never divert our path to one of hatred and bitterness, for those steps lead nowhere but to destruction. To live in hatred is to miss the point of living.

The eagle is your mother, your aunt, your girl cousins – the eagle is any woman. Maybe even a white woman. When you have trouble, go to another woman. She will understand. And she can help you.

Missionary thinks he's telling the truth," Tjikuu says. "But he doesn't understand the ancestors because he has forgotten his own. We should feel sorry for Missionary. People without ancestors are people without yesterday or tomorrow.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I feel an overwhelming compassion and understanding for another human being caught in a situation where the way out is so obvious to others but not to him. Dreams are so important in one's life, yet if followed blindly, they can lead to the disintergration of one's soul.

Every life starts with the same beginning and ends with the same end. The rest is the story, even if you don't understand it, even if you aren't sure which parts are true and which parts are your brain trying to make sense out of smoke.

I think of the note. I want to say me too. I want to say I know. I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too. I want to say that.

They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will.

Is this what love is? That you can see each other, even in the dark?

Vix gave her a look that said everything he'd ever loved about her, and she looked back at him, her eyes full.

Hay frases que no se dicen para ser recordadas, sino por el placer de ver los ojos de quienes las escuchan. Hay afirmaciones que se hacen con la intención de provocar un gesto de asentimiento, negaciones que buscan la aprobación del otro; la complicidad surge de compartir instantes que no pueden evocarse.

Es ist immer einfacher, über die Dinge zu reden, die uns nicht wirklich berühren.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.