Understanding Oneself And Others Quotes

“But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.
You were alone, you always will be.
But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - "look, life's so good.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.”
― LDarnell

“No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.”
― Anton Checkov

“First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.”
― Moffat Machingura

“Life is a chain of interrelated puzzles.Pain and Sorrow are some necessities to greater heights and people may be the architects of our woes. We may develop some hatred for such people through whom the woes of life came our way but when we get to the point where we fully understand why sorrow and pain came our way, we ought to be grateful to those through whom the woes that propelled us to our greatness came.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone

“There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.”
― William Souder

“But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.”
― Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

“When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“One very beautiful virtue one can master is to learn to ignore; to ignore perceived and intended slights no matter how infuriating they might feel.
Not to ignore in anger, rather, to ignore with understanding. However, to keep account for future purposes, to ignore with adept skill and less hurt.
Life just becomes easier and more beautiful.”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination”
― LDarnell

“Lai saprastu savus vistuvākos cilvēkus, man jāsaprot pašam sevi. Jo kopš manas piedzimšanas brīža es esmu pakļauts tādu pašu spēku iedarbībai kā viņi. Es esmu pakļauts laikam, un laiks ir pakļauts man. Es esmu pakļauts sabiedrībai, un sabiedrība ir pakļauta man. Kā rodas pasaules uzskats? Uz šo jautājumu man vēl jāatbild sev pašam. Man vajag sagremot pašam sevi, pirms es drīkstu ķerties pie citiem.”
― Alberts Bels, Izmeklētājs

“To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first”
― Rocky13

“the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It's very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.”
― Neeraj Bhanot

“In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know.”
― Jack Mierop, Becoming . . .

“You were...are...what I heard. Every note.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, I Thirst

“Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.”
― Dannye Williamsen

“940Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
― Christian Morgenstern

“Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.”
― Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More

“I would like to show that we can become so much more through awareness. That is why I speak of conscious evolution. If we understand ourselves, how we think and react, why we do things... Then we can work out how to think more constructively, act more usefully, do things more easily, become more of the person we really want to be deep down inside.”
― Julia Woodman