I’m not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you — better than anyone else in the world.
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Quotes tagged ‘Understanding’
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don…
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn’t.
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Heart and head are contrary historians.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, tolerance and care.
If you took the monsters’ point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
Feel it, understand it, overcome it.
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
Already I realize certain feelings I was not aware of, like the fear of being hurt. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.