Quotes About Understanding

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

Love, too, was just a question of time

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?" the boy asked the alchemist. "Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer. From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. We've all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

You came so that you could learn about your dreams, said the old woman. And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Why is Love more important than Faith? Because Faith is merely the road that leads us to the Greater Love.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

When mouths close, it's because there's something important to be said.

I only invoked what you already knew.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.