Quotes About Understanding

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.