Quotes About Understanding

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.'

If a dense human still fails to get the message, reach over and touch the item you intend for them to share, or touch an arm or cheek with your paw.

We can never know everything," Holmes said, "but I fear that everything knows us.

I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.

Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.

we're the only species that looks into its mate's eyes during intercourse? It developed our concept of the other

Sharing meals together forced us to figure out how to be the body of Christ reconciled across racial, ethnic, and class lines.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

I was in love with her. And it didn't matter that she wasn't in love with me. I loved her. It was my love story. I don't expect you to understand that but it's true. You don't have to be loved back. You can love anyway.

I have been visited by every shade of grief and know that it doesn't come in black or white

What is the point of sharing your life with someone if you can't communicate with them about the things that matter?

Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It can be no other way. (190)

People, not places, make a life whole.

I won't say anything—and he won't ask. That's one of the great paradoxes of friendship between men. It's like an unspoken code: you don't start tunneling unless you hit rock bottom.

Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it's normally something about themselves they hate the most.

I thought I knew everything about friendship and family: the happiness, simplicity and joy within them. But there is another side of devotion, a side which Samira understands.

this: I have never met anyone who is so central to my existence that life without her seems incomprehensible, who I care more about than I do myself.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

Maybe that's the fate of someone who spends his life delving into other people's minds – listening to their worst fears, unmasking their flaws and discovering their motives. Maybe a man like that begins to rust or seize up – haunted by too many ghosts in the machine.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

You know why I love dogs more than people?" she shouts, everything about her softer. "Feed them and pet them and they'll love you when no one else will.

The need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens—second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.