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Quotes About Understanding

Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything
~ Adriana Trigiani
All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by...
~ Adriana Trigiani
There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman's life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full of questions and had the time and pep to seek the answers. That friend knew who you really were. That friend had seen your soul.
~ Adriana Trigiani
If you truly love someone, when he is cut, you bleed.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
~ Adriana Trigiani
You see, that's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you—without you asking.
~ Adriana Trigiani
There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman's life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The young have everything but wisdom.
~ Adriana Trigiani
What you love, I love. What worries you, worries me. What you dream of, I will try and make come true.
~ Adriana Trigiani
If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What
~ Adriana Trigiani
were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full of questions and had the time and pep to seek the answers. That friend knew who you really were. That friend had seen your soul.
~ Adriana Trigiani
But this is too strange. In this sea of coincidences, I am beginning to understand that we don't control our destinies; they are mapped out for us as surely as we are born.
~ Adriana Trigiani
When you see an old lady who's on the wrong side of a good mood, now you know why. She has a past that you can't understand because you didn't live it. As she ages, her feet hurt, her back aches, her knees click, she cooks, she cleans, she worries, she waits, and then she gets sick and dies. Be kind, Anina. Someday you'll be the old lady.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Maybe you shouldn't blame anyone, but accept that this is your sister's story, and the ending belongs to her.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
Live and learn from fools and from sages.
~ Aerosmith
When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.
~ Aeschylus
We should know what is true before we break our rage.
~ Aeschylus
Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.
~ Aeschylus
The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not what to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Truth comes with pain.
~ Aeschylus
How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought, And silence keep to those who yet know nought.
~ Aeschylus
Man shall learn from man's lot.
~ Aeschylus
You have learned the lesson by experience.
~ Aeschylus
He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding
~ Aeschylus