Understanding Quotes

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

~ Criss Jami

[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.

~ Chris Kraus

Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality.

~ Scott Stabile

I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you’ve tried harder to understand me than anyone has in a long time.

~ Doug Dorst

The best ones, are not the perfect ones.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.

~ Graham Greene

When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we’ve been hurt to the core. But that doesn’t mean we ever forget.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, I want to know why!

~ Shannon L. Alder

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them--when they feel understood by you--that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

~ Stephen Cove

People of understanding, pursue peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer leads to peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

~ Imania Margria

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

~ Thomas Rogal Ii

The right path in life will always come with patience. It’s when we reach an understanding that everything happens in God’s time that we walk the right path.

~ Ron Baratono

How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped at the start, even when you thought you knew. We move through life mostly not seeing what is around us, not knowing who is around us, not understanding the forces at play, not understanding ourselves. Unless we stay with it, and maybe this is a movie about staying with it.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later.

~ Toba Beta

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

~ Adam Gopnik

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

~ M. Ganesh Sai

People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks to accomplish that they can hardly get bored.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.

~ Javier Enríquez Serralde

If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.

~ Sunday Adelaja

This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time and understand the importance of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You don’t have to be rich to understand time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must understand that all great things come through time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja