“Since I think just in pictures it's sort of hard to think about abstract concepts so I have to have visual images like for example when I was a child I didn't really understand some of the stuff in the Lord's Prayer and y'know when it talks about "the power and the glory"...and I thought "electrical…”— Temple Grandin, imdb.com
“I get you, you don’t know how you feel. well, I will tell you this: the world doesn’t make much sense without the people you love.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com
“Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.”— Clairabelle Ann, goodreads.com
“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.”— Glen Cook, amazon.com
“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding — to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”— Robert Galbraith, amazon.com
“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.”— Alex Elle, noeeeee.tumblr.com
“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.”— Brad Meltzer, amazon.com
“I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath. Understanding on another level of being.”— Anna Kamieńska, poetryfoundation.org
“Help me understand why You've given in to all these Reckless dark desires.”— Maynard James Keenan, open.spotify.com
“I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.”— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com
“Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?”— Rudy Franciso, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“When I say, I love you, it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are…”— Joss Whedon, imdb.com
“I don’t think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“There are three types of people in this world. Those who understand math and those who don't.”— Sunpeece2, reddit.com
“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com