The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

Mama said it’s probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don’t think I really...

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I’m trying.

It’s a blindness thing, faith.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers…

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are...

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

It’s harder to be afraid of something you understand

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

It’s useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.

Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

scraps” that the abusive priests treated us like. They would use us as a scrap is used and then simply toss us aside. I was moved to tears. Holding it in my hands, I could...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen […]

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

You were…are…what I heard. Every note.

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

[The judge also said that a] memorandum of understanding … does not establish that any requested records are exempt from disclosure.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.

Who and what you affiliate your life around will likely determine who you’ll become.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the...

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You...

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to...

To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the...

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy,...

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, already lived,and held like a legend, and understood.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, ‘describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands’.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Was it like this then? Seventy-five years or so ago? Did a group of people sit around and cast their votes on initiating the Hunger Games? Was there dissent? Did someone make a case for...

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.