Quotes About Understanding

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing slays me faster than a guy who can show compassion and kindness.

Lambert while I'm at it." "She's

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." —Alexis Carrel

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " ?Michael Crichton

He'd been a good man, but she understood the difference between the kind of love a woman was simply taken over by and the kind she chose in a rational decision.

But there in the middle of the crowded dance floor, his gaze held hers, said things that didn't need words for expression. The message couldn't have been more eloquent.

Teenagers are no longer children. Consult with them. Ask their opinions. Suggest. Don't order.

People are almost never what you think. Don't even try to figure them out. Something Andy once read in a magazine. Turns out it's true.

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

when people are different and don't believe the same things, it's not likely that a life together would ever work.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know. Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything.

What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?

This means that knowledge rejected and disapproved of can also exist, but can be placed elsewhere than within the contexts of approved knowledge.

One of the amusing aspects of this is that IF telepathy is what it is, then one need not be in the proximity of a telepath in order to have their mind penetrated.

James Henry Hyslop

seems that our entire species has been totally preoccupied with measuring everything possible, and even of finding subtle and invisible things to take "the measure of." Measuring activity seems both a necessary and a good

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