Quotes About Understanding

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.

Why does life need evidence of life?

Life is too long to know C++ well.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?