Quotes About Understanding

Zo ken ik mijn meisje weer!' brulde Xander. 'Vrouw,' verbeterde Max hem. 'Zo ken ik mijn vrouw weer! En "mijn" is uiteraard bedoeld op een compleet niet bezitterige en absoluut onpatriarchale manier!' Max hief haar glas. 'Reken maar van faxing yes.

Nash, I've cued up the Taylor Swift for you.

It's okay Heiress' Jameson murmured. 'I've got you

Libby moved toward Nash and took his phone from his pocket. There was something intimate about the action--the way he let her, the way she knew he would.

I know that Jamie loves you." Grayson looked at me the way you look at art in a glass case, like he wanted to reach out to touch me but couldn't. "And I've seen the way that you look at him, the way the two of you are together. You're in love with my brother, Avery." He paused. "Tell me you're not

People were fundamentally predictable. If you stopped expecting them to surprise you, they couldn't disappoint.

Sometimes we're at the mercy of other people. We don't even understand the power they have over us until it's too late.

Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.

I guess you never know what other people are thinking, do you?

I understand now that Martin has never known the real me. There is only one person who ever did—who saw all of me, all the beauty along with the ugliness. And it is that person I long for now. Auntie.

He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn't know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.

I don't have a point. I'm just curious. It's an area I don't know much about." He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn't know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

What people don't understand, they destroy.

His philosophy insists that ethics comes first, that "ethics precedes ontology": the first thing we know is our own being, and the way that we know everything else is through the other person.

Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture's basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains' basic formation.

When we feel safe, when we feel we are with someone who basically agrees with us about the symbolic universe, we let down our defenses, confident that our companion understands the symbols that are usually wall up, and will act appropriately.

One thing I've learned, my friend, is every person you meet has different needs, and when we wish to be a valuable part of the person's life, we must learn them." His mouth quirked in a wry grin. "I suppose that's the trick, isn't it? Caring for a person in the way they require, even when it's not how we'd wish to. from Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart

I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.

We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to.

She puts one leg in the car and says, "I guess now you know you're not the only freak." It's the nicest thing she's ever said to me.

I love: the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into the me that's there, the one I don't even see myself.

Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are).