Quotes About Knowing

She'd been hoping for God's blessings, but had she truly enjoyed knowing Him? She'd been so focused on her goals for so long, the whisper of God in her heart seemed but an ancient echo.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. —William Faulkner, Light in August

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity

The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

To really know someone is to havelove and hated him in turn.

A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go.

Do you love him?"How would I know?"You'd know.

Memory knows before knowing remembers," William Faulkner wrote.

The art of being is the art of knowing ourselves, of accepting and existing in harmony with ourselves, and of living out, in action, the highest possibilities of our nature. It includes three basic concepts: self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-assertion.

The pain of knowing is killing me more than killing me would kill me, so I jump just to end it.

you were the only one who understood the futility of the arrangement of life; all the others were only displeased with trivial segments, carped nonsensically about nonsense; Jane, you were killed by knowing too much.

The difference between being subtle and abstract is the difference between knowing and saying it in a gentler way and not knowing and saying it in a way that will let you off the hook. To be abstract with the word is all right if you use it like paint and seek the pure word, but it is difficult, in the language, to have near purity without near meaning.

arabas?na doÄŸru yürüdü. kap?y? kapatt?m. ne istediÄŸini biliyordu ve o ben deÄŸildim. bu tür çok kad?n tan?yordum.

THINGS HAVE ENDS AND BEGINNINGS" Cloud mountains rise over mountain range. Silence and quietness,                             sky bright as water, sky bright as lake water. Grace is the instinct for knowing when to stop. And where.

LIFE'S MAJOR PURSUIT IS NOT KNOWING SELF . . . BUT KNOWING GOD. . . . UNLESS GOD IS THE MAJOR PURSUIT OF OUR LIVES, ALL OTHER PURSUITS ARE DEAD-END STREETS, INCLUDING TRYING TO KNOW OURSELVES.

Half of the fear of life is not knowing something that you wished you knew, and the other half is knowing it.

I've always had lots of side projects in my life, but what's exciting for me is knowing that Adrenaline Mob is bigger than that.

The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists but whose content we don't know. When we share it with other, it's as if we are in on the same secret. We look at each other in amazement or with knowing look. But it's impossible to specify what this secret is. Only the fact that there is a secret is of any importance. Beauty is based on the raw fact of the secret as such.

The stiff-witted and academic seem not to comprehend that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing tongue in cheek does not necessarily preclude an affectionate glow in heart.

But you said there was no defense. There ain't. Then what do I do? Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.

My whole education was to make sure I didn't believe things like that. I dismissed all sorts of things that were indigenous in my family -- superstition and discredited information, and that discredited way of knowing that discredited people always have. But when I began to write, that was the place where I had to go. That's where the information was.

I now know pain is part of any journey- that this is the opposite of grief, but grief the only way I know to describe waiting and waiting without knowing, hoping one day joy will arrive.

I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.