Quotes About Understanding

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me." "Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.

Could you do that again, slowly, so I can analyze it?" he asked.

Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go.

So I feel sorry for her. She really cares about that klutz in the tin can.

Shiara glanced up at me, then sighed. "Oh, all right. I'm sorry, Suz." The lizard twisted his head around. "You are?" He ran around the branch again and peered at her upside down from underneath the limb. "No, you're not at all. How disappointing. I accept." He ran back up on top of the branch.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason.

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. — Nigerian Proverb

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts … . — Robert Fulghum

Some people have not learned to know what their feelings mean. Some have been trained not to feel much. And some have been trained not to know that they have feelings.

People disconnect from us the moment they begin to define us. They begin to connect with us when they define themselves to us or ask us about ourselves. That's how we get to know them and how they get to know us. It doesn't work the other way around.

People who act against others truly act in a backwards way, doing the opposite of what they would need to do to realize their goal.

Agreement and appreciation are not about being of one mind but about sharing and community

You're too sensitive.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts … . — Robert Fulghum Most

You get conditioned to it and confused by it, and then you don't know what's going on.

In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner's need to understand and to be understood is not met.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

In a wild leap that made her feel as though she'd left her body, she thought, It doesn't really matter who you settle on to love, finally, providing you both deserve it.

Adults are the same way — we often need a little time to adjust to the invitation. But too frequently we give adults only one shot. We think, "Well, I made the invitation and he didn't take it. I tried. It's his choice and I'm done." Instead we need to give them time to respond in their own way. Gracious Space encourages us to make multiple invitations over time.