Quotes About Understanding

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.