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  • When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. -- William Barclay
  • Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose. -- Colleen Houck
  • Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
  • I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own. -- Norman Lock
  • We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block. -- Stephanie Mills
  • I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own. -- Vikram Seth
  • I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties. -- Milos Zeman
  • I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. -- Italo Calvino
  • Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. -- Anne Lamott
  • Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. -- Roger Tory Peterson
  • We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life. -- Martin Rees
  • For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person. -- Blake Shelton
  • It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support. -- John Hockenberry
  • In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. -- Julien Green
  • Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. -- Ezra Pound
  • If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. -- Max Lucado
  • But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours. -- Chris Moneymaker
  • Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. -- Aimee Mann
  • I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. -- Shelley Berkley
  • The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it. -- Herschel Walker
  • You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized. -- Bruce Lee
  • Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. -- George Santayana
  • When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing. -- Ajahn Chah
  • You do not understand even life. How can you understand death? -- Confucius
  • You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. -- Julian Barnes
  • Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not. -- Timothy Keller
  • Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. -- Hafez
  • It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. -- Rene Coty
  • he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men? -- Confucius
  • Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand. -- Banksy
  • Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why. -- Benjamin Zander
  • For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. -- Jeffrey Tucker
  • Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience. -- Peter E
  • If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life. -- Leon Brown
  • I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. -- Saul Bellow
  • Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience -- Peter Ellis
  • Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life. -- Yo-Yo Ma
  • In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation. -- Danila Kozlovsky
  • Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life. -- Troy Polamalu
  • Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. -- Shawn Johnson
  • War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own. -- K.P. Yohannan
  • That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life has a plan for each of us; we may not understand the whys on our journey but every event is meaningful nonetheless. -- Ken Poirot
  • It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life. -- Jet Li
  • She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. -- George Orwell
  • I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative. -- Iman Abdulmajid
  • To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life. -- Gichin Funakoshi
  • You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black. -- Peter Watts
  • You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do. -- Taylor Swift
  • Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once. -- Madeleine Albright
  • Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive. -- George W. Bush
  • I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
  • I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be. -- Joan D. Chittister
  • I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life. -- Ruth Simmons
  • I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand. -- Sebastian Faulks
  • I worked my ass off to earn what I have. You have to understand, not many people where I come from get to experience this kind of life. -- Conor McGregor
  • Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand? -- Juliette Binoche
  • Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life. -- Charles R. Sledge Jr.
  • To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am. -- M. C. Escher
  • Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me? -- Agatha Christie
  • But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration. -- Elizabeth George
  • We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition. -- Jay Hernandez
  • Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble? -- Mary Oliver
  • How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? -- Vachel Lindsay
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