Quotes About Understanding

[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.