understand

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f07db39	I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.	understand	Nicholas Sparks
031a94d	...everything has a past. Everything - a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.	davita harp past planning potok understand	Chaim Potok
6e2ad92	Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father	letter understand	Jonathan Safran Foer
8582517	All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning	inspirational life love meanings paulo-coelho reason sufferings understand	Paulo Coelho
3f53259	It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.	grandeur heart help inward inward-significance otherness outward-appearances self understand want world	Donna Tartt
2524d31	"Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD."	god justice know loving-kindness righteous understand	Anonymous
7546c68	Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's like to be dying, and (b) not have died.	come dying houten like only person peter seem understand van	John Green
1b9d959	"I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!"	trying understand women	Nicholas Sparks
79f1f84	Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?	betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger	John Fowles
ee19ac4	When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.	christian eyes god inspire lens love men understand value view women word worth	Elizabeth George
4a5a76d	...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become	change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry	Robin Hobb
f9d1de2	It was more difficult not to understand than to understand.	difficult disgraceful dostoyevsky fyodor nasty quote story understand	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b110c7a	If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.	present understand understanding	Libba Bray
c03a790	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.	adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults	V.C. Andrews
45350e3	"You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly. "That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience."	child foolish generation old understand	Georgette Heyer
98d9d03	She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.	understand	Gregg Olsen
8cdb186	"I ate lunch with Keira today. Second day in a row," I told him, then winced at how stupid that sounded. Rider's grin turned into a full smile, transforming his handsome face into the kind of masculine beauty that was like a punch to the chest. "That's really good, Mallory." His voice dropped as he reached over, curving his hand over my arm. There was a near electric rush from his touch. "I'm proud of you. For real." Giddiness surrounded my heart as I stared at his large hand, darker than my own. He knew how big that was, and I didn't feel so idiotic. He got it. He got me. And that meant the entire universe to me."	keira mallory-dodge praise proud rider-stark understand	Jennifer L. Armentrout
e01bdf4	For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and every Jew knew that genocide could have happened to his own family except for that quirk of fate. Yet, as time stood suspended, Gilray was all gentiles who never quite understood Jews. He could befriend them, work with them, but never totally understand them. He was all white men who could never quite understand black men and all black men who could never quite understand whites. He was all normal men who could tolerate or even defend homosexuals...but never fully understand them. There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.	inspirational religion understand	Leon Uris
11be815	Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason's fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members	aggression ambitious conflict-resolution conflicts drugs fighting gang-addiction gang-communities gang-intervention gang-life gang-members gang-wars mission money on-a-mission rebellion-raiders street-fights street-life take-over thug-life turf-wars understand understanding-each-other violence-addiction war	Drexel Deal
ca777ae	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.	abandonement adult-subjects away children condescending condescension experience eyes good-time idleness incapable kids philosophy subjects thumbs understand understanding wisdom youth	V.C. Andrews
5f8400d	"Instead, they called her a name. They called her "a genius." And even though it really didn't explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation. And that way, nobody ever had to really try to understand."	understand	Louis Sachar
88bc781	New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.	plan understand	Walter Isaacson
5489e68	Some of these things I understand, some I do not. It makes no difference. The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my father, who would like me to be a lawyer.	difference discussion excuse fatherly figure other own talk understand	Mitch Albom

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

Nicholas Sparks

031a94d

...everything has a past. Everything - a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.

davita harp past planning potok understand

Chaim Potok

6e2ad92

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

letter understand

Jonathan Safran Foer

8582517

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

inspirational life love meanings paulo-coelho reason sufferings understand

Paulo Coelho

3f53259

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.

grandeur heart help inward inward-significance otherness outward-appearances self understand want world

Donna Tartt

2524d31

"Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD."

god justice know loving-kindness righteous understand

Anonymous

7546c68

Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

come dying houten like only person peter seem understand van

John Green

1b9d959

"I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!"

trying understand women

Nicholas Sparks

79f1f84

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger

John Fowles

ee19ac4

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

christian eyes god inspire lens love men understand value view women word worth

Elizabeth George

4a5a76d

...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become

change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry

Robin Hobb

f9d1de2

It was more difficult not to understand than to understand.

difficult disgraceful dostoyevsky fyodor nasty quote story understand

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

b110c7a

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

present understand understanding

Libba Bray

c03a790

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults

V.C. Andrews

45350e3

"You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly. "That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience."

child foolish generation old understand

Georgette Heyer

98d9d03

She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.

understand

Gregg Olsen

8cdb186

"I ate lunch with Keira today. Second day in a row," I told him, then winced at how stupid that sounded. Rider's grin turned into a full smile, transforming his handsome face into the kind of masculine beauty that was like a punch to the chest. "That's really good, Mallory." His voice dropped as he reached over, curving his hand over my arm. There was a near electric rush from his touch. "I'm proud of you. For real." Giddiness surrounded my heart as I stared at his large hand, darker than my own. He knew how big that was, and I didn't feel so idiotic. He got it. He got me. And that meant the entire universe to me."

keira mallory-dodge praise proud rider-stark understand

Jennifer L. Armentrout

e01bdf4

For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and every Jew knew that genocide could have happened to his own family except for that quirk of fate. Yet, as time stood suspended, Gilray was all gentiles who never quite understood Jews. He could befriend them, work with them, but never totally understand them. He was all white men who could never quite understand black men and all black men who could never quite understand whites. He was all normal men who could tolerate or even defend homosexuals...but never fully understand them. There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

inspirational religion understand

Leon Uris

11be815

Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason's fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

aggression ambitious conflict-resolution conflicts drugs fighting gang-addiction gang-communities gang-intervention gang-life gang-members gang-wars mission money on-a-mission rebellion-raiders street-fights street-life take-over thug-life turf-wars understand understanding-each-other violence-addiction war

Drexel Deal

ca777ae

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

abandonement adult-subjects away children condescending condescension experience eyes good-time idleness incapable kids philosophy subjects thumbs understand understanding wisdom youth

V.C. Andrews

5f8400d

"Instead, they called her a name. They called her "a genius." And even though it really didn't explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation. And that way, nobody ever had to really try to understand."

understand

Louis Sachar

88bc781

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.

plan understand

Walter Isaacson

5489e68

Some of these things I understand, some I do not. It makes no difference. The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my father, who would like me to be a lawyer.

difference discussion excuse fatherly figure other own talk understand

Mitch Albom