Quotes About Understanding

Si uno se toma el tiempo de sentarse junto a la cabecera de la cama de los moribundos, ellos son los que nos informan sobre las etapas del morir.

They explained their concerns and she said, "I feel a kind of isolation that you'll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what's happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn't want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

when you consider they didn't grow up together.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.

Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond which it would not let you venture. You had to have a break from your anguish, or you'd go crazy. It was the psychological equivalent to fainting when physical pain became overbearing.

Oh. maybe little kids are trouble, sometimes, but only for a good reason: They are tired. They are hungry. They are afraid. He supposes a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance. But adults complicate everything. They are by nature complicators. They learned to make things harder than they need to be and they learned to talk way too much.

aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.

Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to love her was, in fact, loving her, that the face of love depended on the person giving it?

You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, Where are the apples?

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.

I don't think it's foolish. I don't think love is ever foolish.

Funny how an animal can hurt your feelings when you're all alone.

There are certain things in your life that will become every important to you. You might not be able to explain to anyone else why they're important. But you will expect the people who love you, the people who are your family, to respect those things.

The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.

I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.

What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you.

People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

You know what? That woman's pain being greater than yours doesn't make your pain any less. She deserves the best we can offer, and so do you. Now roll over and hike up your johnnie.