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Quotes About Understanding

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
~ Paulo Coelho
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.
~ Paulo Coelho
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act
~ Paulo Coelho
I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.
~ Paulo Coelho
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
~ Paulo Coelho
Go in search of your Gift. The process of finding ourselves is called Love. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you
~ Paulo Coelho
People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World
~ Paulo Coelho
And although you have mastered the words, you haven't yet mastered the blank spaces.
~ Paulo Coelho
To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. We
~ Paulo Coelho
I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald.
~ Paulo Coelho
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Maybe these desert birds could explain to him the meaning of love without ownership.
~ Paulo Coelho
If God exists, and I truly don't believe he does, he will know that there are limits to human understanding. He was the one who created this confusion in which there is poverty, injustice, greed, and loneliness. He doubtless had the best of intentions, but the results have proved disastrous; if God exists, he will be generous with those creatures who chose to leave this Earth early, and he might even apologize for having made us spend time here.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.
~ Paulo Coelho
the great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it posses us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
~ Paulo Coelho
I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it's what's happening in my soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.
~ Paulo Coelho
We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.
~ Paulo Coelho