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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. -- Paul Schrader
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. -- Nikki Giovanni
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same. -- Diane von Furstenberg
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. -- Khaled Hosseini
To understand yourself is the key to wisdom. -- Confucius
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? -- Pascal Mercier
The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. -- Paulo Coelho
You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you. -- Moffat Machingura
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself. -- Thomas a Kempis
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. -- Jonathan Tropper
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others. -- Tariq Ramadan
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. -- Baruch Spinoza
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day. -- Vernon Howard
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There's somewhat of a self-discovery. -- Shahid Kapoor
The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe. -- Gina Charles
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable... -- Rajneesh
When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself. -- Penelope Mitchell
If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly. -- Sri Chinmoy
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression. -- John Leguizamo
A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself -- Anonymous
I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible. -- Christopher
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. -- Janet Fitch
To fully accept someone or something, means that you understand yourself enough to trust your own judgement and intuition, with this understanding full acceptance is inevitable and the next step possible. -- Nityananda Das
Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you. -- Robert Adams
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. -- Mary Baker Eddy
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls. -- Louise Erdrich
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth. -- Ravi Zacharias
The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun. -- Swami Satchidananda
It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating. -- Arca
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways. -- Katherine Paterson
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you. -- Val Kilmer
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn. -- Kevin Spacey
According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it. -- Reb Anderson
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. -- Sandra Cisneros
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. -- William Hurt
I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd. -- Jermain Defoe
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. -- Calvin Coolidge
I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others. -- Jonathan Tisch
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in. -- A. S. Byatt
And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media. -- Monica Lewinsky
Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line. -- Cyndi Lauper
There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others. -- Dhani Jones
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. -- Yoko Ono
People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself. -- Nicole Polizzi
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. -- Napoleon Hill
Knowing yourself lets you understand others. -- Jenny Holzer
Understand yourself first to understand others. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself. -- Ian Jackson
No one else can understand you better than you yourself. -- Vikrmn
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. -- John Steinbeck
If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself -- John Searle
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself. -- Nigel Hamilton
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. -- Princess Diana
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others. -- Nhat Hanh
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. -- Lawrence Durrell
The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. -- Clarence Darrow
The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself. -- Nirmala Srivastava
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people -- William Hurt
If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet. -- Rhonda Britten
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. -- Albert Einstein
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If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all. -- Leonard Jacobson
NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?! -- Gerard Way
What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself. -- Suze Orman
There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good. -- Ali Vincent
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge. -- Gene Simmons
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. -- Isaac Asimov
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself. -- Gogen Yamaguchi
Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Wanna know the truth about yourself and this universe? Just learn to understand your DNA code then you'll see. -- Toba Beta
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why. -- Benjamin Zander
You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
For one to gain wisdom one most first overcome emotions and understand it's causes and effects on others and yourself. -- Nicholas Lopez
When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more. -- Leon Brown
You really have to humble yourself and take your ass whippings to understand that you can learn something from somebody -- Dominick Cruz
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better. -- Anne Hathaway
You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year. -- Derrek Lee
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. -- Dante Alighieri
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. -- Edwin A. Abbott
Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances. -- Rod Stryker
As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them. -- Jaggi Vasudev
First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is. -- Leon Brown
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them. -- Wilferd Peterson
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness -- Nhat Hanh
You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself. -- Laozi
When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is. -- Laurence Overmire
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people. -- Joel Osteen
Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential. -- Bob Proctor
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. -- Nigella Lawson
Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself -- Jennifer Worth
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered? -- Sandra Cisneros
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. -- Damon Albarn
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself. -- Freya Stark
Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord. -- George W. Bush
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself. -- Sara Quin
Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says. -- Art Alexakis
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker -- Katsura Hoshino
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. -- T. D. Jakes
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. -- Gayle Forman
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time. -- Sergei Polunin
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself -- John Searle
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand? -- Seneca the Younger
As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. -- Haruki Murakami
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. -- John Searle
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more. -- Simon Van Booy
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it. -- Francis Collins
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself. -- Lucien Bourjeily

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