Understanding Quotes

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

~ Shawn Klomparens

Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

~ Nancy E. Turner

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes you will let go meet others, travel, experience beautiful things, but there's always someone you feel is home.

~ Jennifer Pierre

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

~ Amit Kalantri

All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The depth of consciousness widens our breadth of understanding and makes us uniconscious.

~ Debasish Mridha

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

~ Sanober Khan

If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything,faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.

~ Toba Beta

Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

~ Criss Jami

Logic only tells us what's there, it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

~ Megan Chance

Through understanding of God way's of grace, a man find grace to turn away from evil.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A good understanding is to keep the great law.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I guess we’re supposed to have faith.”“I never really took you for the faith-having kind,” Quentin said.“I didn’t either. But it’s worked out so far. We’ve got five of the seven keys. You can’t argue with results.”“You can’t,” Quentin said, “but that’s actually not the same thing as having faith.”“Why do you always try to ruin everything?”“I’m not ruining it. I just want to understand it.”“If you had faith you wouldn’t have to understand.

~ Lev Grossman

Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

~ Jacques Derrida

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

~ Elie Wiesel

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out.And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

~ Brenda Ueland

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

~ Louis L'amour

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?

~ Annie Dillard

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

~ Suzy Kassem

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

~ Ernest Hemingway

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

~ Hermann Hesse

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

~ John Ruskin

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

~ Doug Dillon

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

~ Robert Musil

Our difference are beautiful yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful difference that embody our improbable human reality.

~ Scott Stabile

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--Wanda

~ Ouida

Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.

~ Suzy Kassem

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

~ Suzy Kassem

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

~ Malcolm X

Then why do you want to know?Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

~ Umberto Eco