Understanding Life Quotes

• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Life, Empathy

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.685, Open Road Media

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Understanding, Way

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Fear, Understanding, Meaningful Life

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  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

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

  Henry Williams

  Learning, Science, Simplicity

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• And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.

  Sydney Banks

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Understanding, Tools

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• Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

  Joan Erikson

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• [Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Sacrifice, Destiny, Understanding

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Light, Soul, Understanding

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• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

  Ma Rainey

  Feel Better, Talking, Understanding

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• If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.

  Maria Kodama

  Growing Up, Reading, Understanding

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• When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Choices, Understanding

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• Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

  Pythagoras

  Philosophy, Ambition, Discovery

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• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

  Alice Munro

  Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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• You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

  Brad Warner

  Life And Death, Understanding, Live Your Life

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.62, New World Library

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