Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can’t stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means,...

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable us to contain a virus with pandemic potential.

You couldn’t stand to see what terrifies warlords.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just...

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?…know it...

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’tuntil you do understand.

We always vilify what we don’t understand.

I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish…and between those who are truly happy and those who are...

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of...

Face it,” Gary told her kindly. “You’ll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t what they’re really trying...

Peter was so understanding, just like Adam was. They were very understanding of the situation. They know it’s a new era of the NHL. Other teams are doing different things, but other teams don’t have...

How she helps me is with understanding the subtleties required to accomplish this task,

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

Simon: You’re in a dangerous line of work, Jayne. Odds are you’ll be under my knife again, often. So I want you to understand one thing very clearly: No matter what you do or say...

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan.

Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye… but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I...

Everything is going to be alright’ doesn’t mean stubbing your toe won’t hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced...

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science’s growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Was it your understanding that by doing what you were doing, Bonny was facing prison?

My brother, he says. My brother is dead.”And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have...

… understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world’s bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel… he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men… a good ruler has to learn his world’s language… it’s different for every...

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point...

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

…that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that’s when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

I consoled myself with Granddaddy’s words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn’t necessary for understanding. Liking didn’t enter into...

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn’t.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked...

Clearly the understanding is explicit that the package remain at 350 [billion dollars] … Our voices have clearly been heard at every level.