Quotes About Understanding

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

It takes a lot of understanding, time, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.