Quotes About Understanding

Books make you feel things hard.

One thing you can say about daughters and mothers—like it or not, they know the truth about each other.

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.

Apologies were harder for the person getting one than the person giving one.

It's both harder and easier without words.

Her look was easy to read—she couldn't understand, we'd always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to you in one brief look.

Nothing is more intimate than someone who knows your heart. Nothing is more dangerous than someone who knows your heart. Holding someone's heart like that is power.

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.

Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land of trapdoors and hidden places, trees and rocks that looked like one thing, but were actually another.

Hey," I say back. It's a Hey of Almost Forgiveness. "I've got something I want to show you. Will you come somewhere with me?" Oh, all right. As long as it's anywhere. "Okay.

Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.

Kasih sayang itu norak, kalau benar-benar dicermati.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998)

Although life and I are not always in love with each other, we do remain on close speaking terms.

you don't know until you know!

There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

Perspective is the key to everything.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

No one knows a man better than himself.

There is always a worthwhile price for discovery. Discover who you are. Know yourself.