Quotes about Understanding

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

One of my favorite authors (okay, my favorite nonfiction author) is Robert Benson. His word choices bring me a sense of calm humor, peace, a deeper understanding of God's heart and mind

Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

Human sympathy has its limits.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.