Quotes About Understanding

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Denis Lacorne

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

A mother's love is greater than a child's confusion.

I still recall clearly. Two doctors were talking to me about her in front of her, as though she couldn't comprehend the language. They then turned to her using baby talk.

I have only known you about five months. But you know every piece of my life, all the ugly details. Now I'm asking you to trust me with yours—not because I want to know your stuff, but because I want to know you. What made you this amazing woman that you are, this woman that I've grown to admire and love. I want to know her story.

He forked his fingers through his hair, clutching fistfuls until his scalp tightened. He'd been confused until she'd looked at him, until he'd seen the look in her eyes. And then he knew. She was afraid. Afraid because he made her feel things, things she hadn't felt with Stephen or probably anyone else, because this was real love. Not some tepid, watered-down version. But Meridith wanted tepid. She wanted safe. His

Look," he said. "I'm not the one for you. You need to move on, maybe start going out with Drew again or—" "Drew!" "He's a nice guy, Madison, you should give him a—" "You're pawning me off on Drew?" His silence pretty much said it all. She shot to her feet, her eyes stinging. "I don't love Drew. I love you, you idiot.

Oh, wow. Really? All that blathering made sense?" "It did to me. Thank you." "My pleasure, honey." "Now if I can just get a handle on this Jake thing." "Well, I don't how to tell you this, but sometimes the thing you're most afraid of is the thing you need most." Meridith

What's going on behind those green eyes?" "So much." "Tell me." It

He can handle all your emotions. Every last dark and wretched thought. He already knows about them anyway.

Shay, wait." She shot him a look. He was getting that look a lot these days, and he felt his patience draining. "What? What did I do?" "Move." He could be stubborn too. "Not till you tell me what's wrong." "Nothing's wrong." "You could freeze water with those looks.

When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

The world is an infinitely better place when we don't criticize the actions of others, but instead imagine walking in their shoes. Native Americans say: "Walk a mile in my moccasins.

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.