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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

  Carl Sagan

  Curiosity, Kind, Ecstasy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Character, Self

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Wisdom, Compassion

  "Be Happy Now: Simple Steps for Enjoying Life". Book by Laura Barrette Shannon, p. 96, March 27, 2012.

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• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grieving, Self Respect, Silence

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Depression, Believe

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Einstein

  Success, Teaching, Data

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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Isaac Watts

  Time, Depth, Hovering

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

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• Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Islamic, Healing

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Interesting, Enemy

  "Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects".

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• The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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• I write to understand as much as to be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Literature, Understood

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.12, Schocken

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• A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Faith, Military

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• Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Believe, Science, Atheism

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

  Khalil Gibran

  Reality, Listening, Doe

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

  Prince

  Sympathy, Compassion, Empathy

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• A person hears only what they understand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Positivity

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Communication, Emotions Feelings

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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