Quotes About Understanding

Patrick raised and lowered his eyebrows in a 'gotcha!' kind of way.

Maybe it's living back at my parents' house, or perhaps going back to school, but somehow, surrounded by all these reminders from my past, in the middle of all the stuff I grew up with, with the people I grew up around, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what 'home' means.

There's a difference between nutrition knowledge and food knowledge.

Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.

If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?" "Pretty much.

People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

One cliché attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?

Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. In those monents that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don't really think depression really is that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.