Browsing Topic Best Understanding Quotes

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness. Third should come understanding. Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

One of the hardest obstacles I’ve had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it’s perfectly OK to say no.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

True Wisdom Comes From Understanding, Not Memorization.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour.

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

There are three ways to correct our faults: We can change through behavior. We can change through understanding. We can change heart.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.