"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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3/18/19

Quotes on UNDERSTANDING


"A person hears only what they understand." ~~Johann Wolgang von Goethe

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." ~Jules Renard

"Be a traveller, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live." ~Andrew Zimmern

"Closure becomes easier once you start to understand that was just a chapter of your life, not the whole story." ~Anon

“Forgiving, listening, understanding are beautiful roses.” ~Gede Prama

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..” ~Leo Tolstoy

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” ~Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn." ~Robert Frost

"If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. Smile with your whole being." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn't mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don't have it but when you have it!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy." ~Alexandre Dumas

"Listen to the quiet of your heart. It wants to share deep truths that cannot be understood through words." ~Butterflies and Pebbles

"Man must rise above the Earth – to the top of the atmosphere and beyond – for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives”. ~Socrates, scholar, teacher and philosopher

“Not everyone will understand your journey. That's fine. You are here to live your life, not to make everyone understand” ~Paulo Coelho (HIPPIE, 2018)

"Once upon a time … there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~Terry Tempest Williams

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” ~Terry Tempest Williams

"Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and makes sense of our world." ~L.M. Elliott

"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say." ~Khalil Gibran

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." ~Rumi

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.” ~Richard Dawkins

"The world is vast and huge than my brain can comprehend. It is only when I look with my heart that I can take it all in. Then, and only then, will it fit within my understanding." ~Anon

"There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you speaking a word." ~Yasmin Mogahed

"To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled." ~Stephen R. Lawhead

"Understanding is deeper than knowledge. There are many people who know you, but very few who understand you." ~Nicolas Cage

"Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."  ~William Hazlitt

"When I question my thinking, when I am in doubt of what to do next, the best answer for me is this: Let me be kind. When kindness drives my thinking, actions and emotions, I always come through with love and a deeper understanding of myself and those share this earth with me." ~Robin Korth

"Where there's love and understanding there's heaven." ~Gede Prama

"With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding." ~Sandra Lake

"Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." ~from THE PROPHET (1923) - Khalil Gibran

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