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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

  Dennis Banks

  Believe, Native American, People

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• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  Richard Neal

  Lightning, Lines, Injury

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• There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Literature, Knows

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

  Joe Chung

  Simple, Long, Long Time

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• Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Intellectual, Brain, Rejects

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• Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

  Hans Arp

  Hands

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• To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  World, Body, Harmony

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.167, Psychology Press

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• There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Being Weird, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.11, Bantam

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• To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inward, Guarantees, Use

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• The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

  Marion Milner

  Time, Learning, Growth

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.33, Taylor & Francis

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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• Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Political, Together

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• So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

  Susan Sarandon

  God, Spiritual, People

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  Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Doe

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• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

  Money, Business, Philosophical

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

  Nick Lowe

  Peace, Tolerance, Peace Love

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. September 12, 2011.

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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Truth, Intelligent

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

  John Conyers

  Peace, Party, Race

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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