Quotes About Understanding

Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Kuule, vänskä. Mis sie tarviit oikein hyvää miest? Täs siul on sellanen.

Thus spake to him the steeds who

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Khalil Gibran says a soul mate is the guardian of the other person's solitude.

Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things.

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.

She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it.

Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.

One should not poke one's nose into places where Nature does not want the presence of man.

People shy away from messed-up people. They don't want to be burdened.

Gwen, a woman with BPD, talks about her inability to decipher the world around her. "On the day I was born, all the newborn babies got on a line to meet God and to get their How to Act in All Situations Throughout Life book. When it was my turn, God had run out of the book. Ever since that day, I have been looking over other people's shoulders so that I could read their book and know how to act.

This painful mental illness is not fair, but saying it is not fair does not change anything. Thinking that you should not have to work so hard to get through everyday life with someone with BPD does not change the fact that this is what you need to do.

There is one universal gesture that has one universal message--a smile

Visuomenei, jei j? sudaryt? pilnavert?s, m?stan?ios b?tyb?s, gerai suprantan?ios viena kit? ir nekonkuruojan?ios taip beprasmiškai, nereik?t? nei vyriausyb?s, nei ?statym?, nei vadov?.

Spirituality centered in love is hard work, but it is solid granite. Because love doesn't insist on who is right, it isn't at risk when we are shown wrong. It simply is a commitment to a foundational set of values – and a values commitment is something that no one else can take away.

my newspaper?" "No," said Charlie. "No. I told you

more mouths to feed. And no wonder Mother had been short-tempered today. When she said that even though it was nobody's fault, they were still in

I do not expect from someone what they will not or cannot give me.