Quotes About Understanding

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

My aim in life is not to judge.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.

The more I see, the less I know.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

A friend is a second self.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.