Quotes About Understanding

In reading Scripture, we feel in the presence of Him unto whose eyes all things are naked and open.

I go by Kit now… and, just so you know, Katie wants to be called Kat." Jesus Christ. Give me a break…

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

I know that no one's story is simple. And no single story tells the whole truth.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.

I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

Books will change your life, Rennie," Mrgot told me, handing me a copy of A Room of One's Own. You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

THE USES OF SORROW by Mary Oliver (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

But in instances where I could not substantiate a physical or emotional detail, I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

Books will change your life... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life. You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself.

Leventhal's last quote is the one that rolled around in my head during the hour-long drive home: "Confidence," he said, "is what you have before you understand the problem.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.