Quotes about Understanding

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

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.