Quotes About Understanding

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault, it just sees beyond it as well. ~Kimberly Rossi's Diary

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Only the nonreader fears books.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

She had eyes in the back of her heart.

That which you don't understand, you fear. That which you fear, you hate.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them.

It is wrong," he told his colleagues repeatedly, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is"—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."290

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.