Quotes About Understanding

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

I'm interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I'm trying to understand.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.