Quotes About Understanding

A sore throat doesn't become less sore simply because you've felt it before.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness.

We can look at the world through more than one lens. If we look at people through the lens of emotion, at the feelings that drive opinions, rather than the opinions themselves, it's easy to see the things we share. The hopes, the fears, the loves, the insecurities, the longings, the doubts, the dreams. Other people can be wrong, and we can be wrong, and that is another thing we have in common. The capacity for fucking up. And for forgiving.

She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.

I would later discover this was one of the key problems humans had with numerical understanding—their nervous systems simply weren't up to it.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term

but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Well, you don't see yourself as a bad cat owner any more. You looked after him as well as he could have been looked after. He loved you as much as you loved him, and maybe he didn't want you to see him die. You see, cats know. They understand when their time is up. He went outside becuase he was going to die, and he knew it.

Their conversation topics are very rarely the things they want to be talking about, and I could write ninety-seven books on body shame and clothing etiquette before you would get even close to understanding them.

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

Interessant dat het leven soms een heel nieuw perspectief kreeg als je maar lang genoeg wachtte omdat te zien, peinsde ze.

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity. Yes, that was what love was for. (I may not have understood marriage, but I understood love, I was sure of it.)

do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.

I do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

And I didn't really understand those issues until I knew he was gay, but they say sibling rivalry isn't about siblings but parents, and I always felt my parents just encouraged his dreams a bit more.

Anton steals a glance back at me and I smile and confuse him more. I understand. The way you can get caught up in things, find yourself floating, heading towards trouble you can hardly avoid.

Sa nu crezi ca stii. Sa stii ca tu crezi.

Leggere] – è importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data. È così che gli esseri umani si fondono. Le menti si collegano. Grazie ai sogni. All'empatia. Alla comprensione. Alla possibilità di fuga. Leggere è amore in azione.

Porque, Nora, a veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it.