Quotes about Understanding

God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh—he speaks every language. He understands.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: Spinning Into Butter

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.