Quotes About Understanding

Ve bana diyordu ki: GittiÄŸin yerde ac?lar?m?zdan söz et, anlat kardeÅŸim, aÅŸa??da bu cehennemde yaÅŸayan kardeÅŸinden söz et

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Kažete da ste neshva?eni mladi prijatelju. Strpite se. I dijamant je u osnovu ugljenik, ali je umeo da ?eka.

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?

today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.

When someone tells you, 'I don't need your idea,' you must not fling your drink in his or her face; instead, you must ask, 'Why?' It's the most difficult—and ego-bruising—part of the creative process.

It was as if she saw him in a whole new way, as if he had magically been transformed into a new person. Perhaps what she could really see, or wanted so very much to see, was how much he cared for her. Not that he wanted something from her, but that he wanted to see to it that she was happy, that she was taken care of, that that was what he truly wanted. And in that instant, it made her love him.

It would take a lifetime to understand another person. We all have complex, nuanced behaviors that make us who we are, or why we are. Acceptance is a better way to go.

Reading is my only true friend.

transition from being just friends; to get to know each other in that way

He wanted an answer, a simple, uncomplicated set of words wrapped around an idea he could accept. His companion's answer, however, told him there was nothing simple or uncomplicated about his question, no matter how straight-forward it might have seemed to him.

Ä°nsan?n yaÅŸam?n ne olduÄŸunu kavrayan bir varl?k olduÄŸunu söyleyenler yan?l?yor. Anlama yetisi pek bir iÅŸe yaramaz; konuÅŸuyor olmas? aptall???n? yok etmez. Ancak insan kardeÅŸinin ac?s?n? sezip duyumsayamaya gelince, aptall??? hayvanlar?nkini geçer.

El nu era un înÈ›elept, dar îi pl?cea liniÈ™tea conÈ™tient? a sufletului: - Mai curând sau mai târziu, omul inteligent ajunge s? înÈ›eleag? deÈ™ert?ciunea zbuciumului sentimental care tulbur? pacea È™i consum? viaÈ›a - îmi zicea el. Ferice de acel care ajunge s? înÈ›eleag? aceasta mai de timpuriu: cu atât mai mult se va bucura de existen??.

Cât e de trist s? fii om È™i s? înÈ›elegi viaÈ›a mai puÈ›in chiar decât lighionanele.

Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there

Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has the power to add to their happiness or detract from it, unless they themselves allow the adverse thoughts or wicked actions of others to affect them.

Master stressed on other occasions the futility of mere book learning. "Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary," he remarked. "Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

It is not easy to criticize others accurately and kindly until you know that you can first criticize yourself perfectly. When you can clearly picture the faults of others and look at those faults with a sympathetic attitude, as if they were your own, then you are correct in your criticism.

the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others' lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own.

Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetites, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.