Understanding Oneself And Others Quotes

“When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“We are one at the root - we just part at the branch”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I don’t hate my relatives or those whose names fill my address book. But I do not want to have lunch with any of them. It is not personal. I am not angry. Nor is this about being afraid. I am not shy. I do not have terrible manners.

Do birds hate lips? Do Fijians detest snowplows? Being a loner is not about hate, but need: We need what others dread. We dread what others need.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

“The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.”
― Akilnathan Logeswaran

“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“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

“Learn the truth...never assume.
Understand the plight...never judge.
Put yourself in someone's shoes...never hurt.
Think before you act, reason before you react.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

“Understanding breeds empathy.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don’t. You’d think that after living with these people for fifteen years I’d know a little something about them. But right now I feel like I don’t know my parents at all. I guess
when you get down to it, I’ve never really thought about them as people. They’ve always been my parents. Now I have to think about them as people with feelings. What a pain.
The funny thing is, I bet they feel the same way.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Our pasts often set our circumstances.”
― Katherine Russell, Without Shame

“Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“If others are judgmental and do not appreciate your life's work, don't be dejected. Try to see the incapability of others who are unable to understand the things you understand, and appreciate the capability of seeing something which is not visible to others.”
― Ashish Mandlik

“You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Beauty is seen in repetition; keep repeating your beauty even if your beauty is not all that beautiful, you shall still leave a mark and there shall come a moment when the beauty will be seen”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
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― Sondra Faye

“To be honest about it, I didn’t even always like Sharley. Maybe that’s the way it is with friends. Maybe the liking isn’t the most essential part of being friends.

Maybe it’s the sticking by. Maybe it’s the impression of yourself you get through your friend’s eyes.

Or maybe it’s all the little lessons you learn.”
― RK Vetter

“If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don’t really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Just because I understand does not mean I agree.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“A mark of true Christianity will be its intellectual vigour and its search for meaning in every aspect of life. True Christianity will always be critical, questioning and continually developing in its understanding of God and of human life. The subject
matter for religion is every human experience. In Christian understanding, God is immanent, that is, God is present in all things, and creation itself is a sign, and an effective sign, of God’s presence - a sacrament. That is why there has been such an emphasis on scholarship and learning in the Christian tradition. Faith, as St Anselm wrote, ‘seeks understanding’, for it is the nature of true faith to trust that God is at work in everything and that there is no question which falls outside the scope of religious inquiry. When faith in God weakens, the critical element will also weaken, and there will be more warning against false doctrines than encouragement to develop our understanding. If the critical element is not fostered, Christians will remain infantile in their religious belief and practice, which will have little or no relation to everyday life and behaviour.”
― Gerard Hughes

“The actual, expanded consciousness, reality of our planet is that all of life is LOVE; our very existence is LOVE. Everything that exists is just varying degrees of this LOVE; polar absolutes do not exist. Good versus evil is pure illusion. Even the most seemingly “negative” person with ill intent is still in the spectrum of love.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“And the Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not
John 1:5
And the Light shineth in darkness; and she comprehended it not
Her 7:2013
The Light still shines in darkness; and she did not know this
She 6:2014
His Light continue to shine in the darkness; and she did not recognize him
We 5:2015
He loved in spite of the darkness; and she comprehended it not
Us 4:2016”
― Gregory C Warner

“It was a non-verbal password which unlocked a conversation: they spoke, but did not need words!”
― Byron Sogie-Thomas, Razor Bumps and Stretch Marks

“Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great