Quotes About Understanding

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.