Quotes About Understanding

She narrowed her eyes at Ciera. "You know, for a smart lady, you're kinda dumb about some real-life stuff, aren't you?

Chudo-Yudo chuckled and moved over to lay his huge head on Jenna's foot, generously allowing her to scratch his favorite spot under his chin in case it made her feel better. Barbara

Understand that each part that is experienced internally is a part of you, a person with DID.

Body language is a very powerful tool... 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one we share.

realized he wasn't the one

jutting bosom, and closer acquaintance had done nothing

Even more important, I needed to follow the advice of the emperor Hadrian, as imagined by Marguerite Yourcenar: "Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those he has." I needed to learn how to see that though the cashier is sullen, she makes perfect change and that is enough

And as she talks, I concentrate on spreading out my substance, making myself spongy to absorb the puffiness into myself, to absorb the pain radiating through her feet and legs and back.

You? Common sense?" Asif laughed.

I thought she liked you now. I've seen her kiss you and she says your name the special way she says Rina's and mine - like it tastes good.

My heart has often been too full to speak.' -Emma to husband Charles on her gratitude for 'the cheerful and affectionate looks you have given me when I know you have been miserably uncomfortable.

Uncle Cor once had asked Vincent if he would feel anything for a woman or a girl who was beautiful, 'but I said I would have more feeling for and would prefer to be involved with one who was ugly or old or impoverished or in some way unhappy, who has acquired understanding and a soul through experience of life and trial and error, or sorrow.' -Vincent Van Gogh

More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma

I love Black Beauty, but it's just a story, of course. What matters is. . . I don't know. . . what you do once the story is inside you.

Who's the young man beside you?" Helen suddenly asked. "Oh, I see, you're one of us." She turned to Nonie. "And you did introduce us before." She tapped a finger against her right temple. "Every once in a while this old clock up here forgets to click to the next second. I apologize for that.

We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.

Empathy is more painful than medusa stings.

It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world too.

It is not enough to feel love. More important is how we express love.

Julieta looks at me, and then she laughs. 'Your boundaries are made from sand, Sofia.' 'Yes,' I say. 'I know that.

Muskarac i zena su uvek Potpuno Iskreni kad god NESTO kazu jedno drugom. Oni nikad ne bi pomislili da kazu jedno drugom SVE.

I'm like a mussel, closed in my shell. It's only you who can open me.

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.