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Quotes and Sayings about Understanding
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Albus Dumbledore
in
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
23
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
14
Peace
Volkstrauertag
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
4
Life
Experience
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
in
1984
4
Let us enjoy life as long as we don't understand it.
Kurt Tucholsky
2
Life
Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.
Woody Allen
1
Universe
So everyone just pretends to understand... and pretends to be understood.
Monokuma in
Danganronpa
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
Patience & Endurance
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Humanity
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Forgiveness & Mercy
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Fear
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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
Pain / Nagato
in
Naruto
21
Life
Pain
Hurting
Falling down
The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.
Pat in
Silver Linings
36
Life
Breakup
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.
Stephenie Meyer
in
Twilight
19
Life
Death
Suicide
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Albus Dumbledore
in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
45
Courage
Light
It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.
Albus Dumbledore
in
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
43
Dreaming
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Sirius Black
in
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
53
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Albus Dumbledore
in
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
42
Teams
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
23
Reason & Sanity
Imagination
I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
Albert Einstein
22
Foolishness
Technology
Generations
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
1
Peace
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
Cecelia Ahern
in
P.S. I Love You
18
Peace
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
Death
Allerheiligen
Volkstrauertag
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
George Santayana
1
War
Memorial Day
Volkstrauertag
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Søren Kierkegaard
Life
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren Kierkegaard
Simba
: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki
: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba
: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki
: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."
Rafiki
in
The Lion King
43
Experience
Past
Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Rafiki
in
The Lion King
29
Experience
Past
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
in
Animal Farm
5
Freedom
Hearing & Listening
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell
in
Animal Farm
4
Animals
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
in
1984
4
Future
Past
Present
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
George Orwell
in
1984
3
You need lots of patience to learn how to be patient.
Kurt Tucholsky
4
Patience & Endurance
It's great to share silence with someone else.
Kurt Tucholsky
2
Being Silent
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving.
Woody Allen
12
Love
Breakup
I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.
Woody Allen
11
Memories
Past
Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Democritus
Universe
When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.
Wish
Universe
Wherever there is hope, there is most definitely despair.
Junko Enoshima in
Danganronpa
I'm rather proud of my ability to tell lies. I can trick not only others, but even my own heart.
Celestia Ludenberg in
Danganronpa
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Phillips Brooks
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
You don't build a great castle just all at once.
Baker Mayfield
Patience & Endurance
Castle
: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett
: "Yes. You kill my patience."
Kate Beckett
in
Castle
Patience & Endurance
Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski
Character
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
J. Michael Straczynski
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
3
Darkness
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
2
Life
Happiness
Darkness
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
Albus Dumbledore
in
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
35
Humanity
Breakup
Grief & Condolence
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