Understanding Quotes

By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

God (Love) can heal anything. Your job is to give permission. It takes a lotof trust.

With God’s help in the grasp of addiction you’ll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.

It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.

Reality tastes like ashes

Reading an author's Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.

There’s nothing like the gift of understanding.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

Every act intends some good.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Horror it has it's own strange stuff... brutal stuff and it's difficult understanding!?

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

Sometimes it hurts to look at you, ” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

The great soul understands the small-minded.

Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.

Understanding” is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

I understand you" is the soul behind "I Love You". If this is missing, "I Love You" is empty.

Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!

Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.

A better understanding is a good factor in all things for it gives good reasons for good actions, but to come to a certain understanding, you need to get a certain understanding!