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Understandable Quotes (page 96)

Once we truly know that life is difficult? once we truly understand and accept it? then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters? -'The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others. Mikhail Lermontov
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if... Noam Chomsky
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. Clive Barker
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie
It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain Ruth Graham
...there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other... Henry James
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. Alice Walker
John Cleese quote: "Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look -..."
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies John Cleese
Albert Einstein quote: "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't..."
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Albert Einstein
Graham Greene quote: "I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might..."
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. Graham Greene
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting. Hunter S. Thompson
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws. Edgar Cayce
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not. Lloyd Alexander
Shirley Jackson quote: "My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger..."
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding? Shirley Jackson

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