Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out – they meant nothing, really. She wasn’t so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology...

Love is the reason why, in confusion, we understand.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

The only way to reach an understanding and to get out of the current situation is talks.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to...

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene...

Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don’t lose your temper and don’t get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.

He has a master understanding of holding a crowd and taking them places: high, low and everywhere in between, … He knows how long he can hold them before they go over the edge, and...

Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.

You’d be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don’t understand your own capacities.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Tidak selamanya kata kata indah itu benar, dan kata kata menyakitkan itu salah, jadi pahami dan mengertilah.

Falling in love… how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the...

Let us listen to others, put across our views, do away with discord and enhance mutual understanding.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

For days and weeks on end one racks one’s brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or...

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them–when they feel understood by you–that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

I don’t believe that,” I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. “I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

You’re going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do...

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander’s own… that none of...

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called “sciences as one would.” For what a man had rather were true he...

Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at...

Ikiwa hakuna kitu kinafanyika katika maisha yako usijali. Kuna kitu kinafanyika – kuingia na kutoka kwa hii pumzi.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

…only one man lived who could understand Gibbs’s papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

I kept reaching for my muses,my wandering muses, floatingon clouds filled with their passions.”(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we’re in” my poem “In a BishopsWood Clearing

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

our mind is like a bitch which will never stay with us and which will never sleep with us unless we give & get a deeper understanding.

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would...

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people...

A perfect love is not giving too much devotion and loyalty, but understanding little tiny things.