"I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's...
Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that may prevent a man from becoming God's representative on earth
To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.
You confuse not speaking with not listening.
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to...
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or...
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...
