Quotes about Understanding
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.
— Alice Hoffman
She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
— Alice Hoffman
To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.
— Alice Hoffman
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
— Alice Hoffman
Would you like to know your fatal flaw?' Eddie flushed with annoyance. He could have easily made a list of Hochman's flaws, enough to fill several pages. Still, he was curious. 'Please do tell.' 'You judge what you don't understand.
— Alice Hoffman
A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.
— Alice Hoffman
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
— Alice Walker
And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238
— Alice Walker
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
— Alice Walker