Quotes About Understanding

For some people, they may categorize it as gay love. And for me, I simply see it as love. And theres no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

As much as he needed the sweet surcease to be had in her body, he yearned to know her mind, to seek deep within it and sense a welcome for him there. He wanted to share her thoughts, her dreams, her secrets. He wanted her to come to him with desire, to reach inside him and discover how open he was to her.

i've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.

I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people based on one instance.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

I fear that people do indeed know what Hitler wants, and what he intends, and that is precisely why they vote for him. Not because they misunderstand him, but because they understand him very well, and approve.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

After you've worked in a hotel, there's nothing about human nature you don't know.

I realized that a book can reach out and embrace you like an arm and make you walk away from you thought you understood.

This helped me a lot," he said. What helped who a lot? I wondered as I stood beside the open door. "PFLAG?" Jason asked after I heard the sound of a book dropping on his desk. "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. I heard you talking to the missus and … my brother was gay.

Every couple fights. The question really isn't if we fought as much as how we fought.

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm 'd and oh, my 'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?

We never know who we are... until we're tested

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

I'm so glad you're not dumb, Yaz," Neela said. Yazeed shot her a sidelong glace. "I thought you were going to say dead." "That, too.

Kindness is many things," he said. "It is gentle. Tender. Tolerant. It is born of patience and faith. And sometimes, yes, it's dangerous. Helping a wounded animal that's likely to lash out, standing up for someone who's being taunted by bullies... these things are all dangerous. But to try to understand another creature, to put ourselves in their place, to help them - even when it costs us - that shows strength, Sophie, not weakness.

Love-real love- sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes." The Beast looked at him skeptically. "How do you know that?" "Because I'm in love with a woman who's a feather duster," said Lumiere. "That's how.

Lucanos nodded [...] 'She's the girl who sees with her heart.' Aranae rolled all eight of her eyes. She chittered again, in a scolding tone this time. When she finished, she crossed two of her legs and gave Belle a dirty look. Belle shrank under her disapproving glare, 'What did she say?' she asked timidly. 'She said your heart needs glasses.

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you