Quotes About Understanding

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.