Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
—Carl Jung
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
—Edward Steichen
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
—Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.
—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
—Elbert Hubbard
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
—Honoré de Balzac
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
—Jim Bishop
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
—Queen Juliana
The skepticism of youth signals the beginning of a search for something actually worth trusting, both within one's own psyche and in the world. That's why teens, supposedly stuck in life's lost years, are often so unequivocal about what they love and what they hate, and so frustrated when they feel misunderstood. The adolescent spirit is not the spirit of the lost. It is the conviction that you are not lost—that wandering has a purpose, and that what you deserve more than anything is the freedom to walk awhile on your own path.
—Ann Powers
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
—George Bernard Shaw
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
—William Hazlitt
Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.
—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride
Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.
—Terry Pratchett
The important thing is that when you come to understand something, you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
—Sister Helen Prejean