Quotes about Understanding

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

What a difference having a friend makes.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.