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.	past davita potok harp understand planning	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	reason life love inspirational paulo-coelho meanings understand sufferings	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.	want world heart inward inward-significance otherness outward-appearances grandeur understand help self	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 loving-kindness righteous understand know justice	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 houten only seem van peter understand person like dying	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 women understand	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?	virtue good goodness life betrayed bursting younger older trivial ideals virtuous years frank old frankness betray important understand ideal experience charm knowledge betrayal young	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.	worth men women inspire god love lens view understand word value christian eyes	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	risk fear change heart love truth realization see understand result realize outcome worry danger threaten soul	Robin Hobb
f9d1de2	It was more difficult not to understand than to understand.	story quote disgraceful fyodor nasty dostoyevsky difficult understand	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b110c7a	If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.	present understanding understand	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.	understanding kids told treated condescension incapable subjects adults understand kid child children teens eyes 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."	generation old understand child foolish	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."	mallory-dodge rider-stark keira praise proud 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.	religion inspirational 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	money war aggression ambitious gang-communities on-a-mission take-over understanding-each-other street-fights thug-life conflicts gang-life gang-wars gang-addiction turf-wars violence-addiction gang-intervention gang-members rebellion-raiders street-life conflict-resolution mission understand fighting drugs	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.	understanding kids youth philosophy wisdom abandonement adult-subjects condescension good-time thumbs incapable subjects away idleness understand experience children condescending eyes	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.	fatherly figure own discussion other difference excuse understand talk	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.

past davita potok harp understand planning

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

reason life love inspirational paulo-coelho meanings understand sufferings

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.

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

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 loving-kindness righteous understand know justice

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 houten only seem van peter understand person like dying

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 women understand

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

Robin Hobb

f9d1de2

It was more difficult not to understand than to understand.

story quote disgraceful fyodor nasty dostoyevsky difficult understand

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

b110c7a

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

present understanding understand

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.

understanding kids told treated condescension incapable subjects adults understand kid child children teens eyes 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."

generation old understand child foolish

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."

mallory-dodge rider-stark keira praise proud 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.

religion inspirational 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

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

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.

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

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.

fatherly figure own discussion other difference excuse understand talk

Mitch Albom