Quotes About Understanding

Rabih feels ready for marriage because he has despaired of being fully understood.

Ebeveynlerin sevgisi ve anlay??? yeterli olsa, insan olduÄŸu yerde sayar ve zamanla soyu tükenirdi. Türün hayatta kalmas?, çocuklar?n nihayetinde bundan b?kmas?na dayan?r. Daha tatmin edici sevgi ve heyecan kaynaklar? bulma umuduyla dünyaya at?lmalar?na baÄŸl?d?r.

Bu ça??n garipliklerinden biri, arkadaÅŸl?k kurman?n en kolay yolunun genelde kar??n?zdakinden soyunmas?n? istemek olmas?.

love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

He feeds her his worlds.

It is of course the height of absurdity to blame them. But this is to misunderstand the rules under which love operates. It is because we cannot scream at the forces who are really responsible that we get angry with those we are sure will best tolerate us for blaming them. We take it out on the very nicest, most sympathetic, most loyal people in the vicinity, the ones least likely to have harmed us, but the ones most likely to stick around while we pitilessly rant at them.

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

Vai entender que o amor só dura quando não somos fiéis às suas sedutoras ambições iniciais e que, para ter um relacionamento duradouro, precisará abrir mão dos sentimentos que desde o início o levaram a amar. Precisará aprender que o amor é mais habilidade do que entusiasmo.

The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don't yet know very well. The best cure for love is to get to know them better.

what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

At this last stop before the road enters the endless forest, what we have in common with others can loom larger than what separates us.

I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise

What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

I felt ready to abandon selfabsorption for the sake of consummate empathy, to catalogue every one of Chloe's memories, to become a historian of her childhood, to learn all of her loves and fears. Everything that could possibly have played itself out within her mind and body had promptly grown fascinating.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.

Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might constitute only a narrow, and perhaps rather mean-minded, aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a quest to find love rather than to give it; to be loved rather than to love. Children

It is a wonderful thing to live in a world where so many people are nice to children. It would be even better if we lived in one where we were a little nicer to the childlike sides of one another.

One could compare a lover's gaze to a barbecue skewer. Within the complexity of our nature, every lover pics up on certain elements and neglects others.

enojo poco después de recibir una ofensa es la cosa más generosa que uno puede hacer, pues le ahorra al ofensor el florecimiento de la culpa y la necesidad de hacer bajar al ofendido de su torre almenada. Como

It is difficult to get the news from poems

We can achieve a balanced view of adult love not by remembering what it felt like to be loved as a child but rather by imagining what it took for our parents to love us - namely, a great deal of work.

Romanticism is a philosophy of intuitive agreement. In real love, there is no need tiresomely to articulate or spell things out. When two people belong together, there is simply - at long last - a wandrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.