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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. -- Phillips Brooks
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. -- Frederick Buechner
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
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
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
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness. -- Rajneesh
I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. -- Craig Venter
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
There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective. -- Thalia
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' -- Tom Wolfe
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. -- Lynn Davies
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. -- Winifred Holtby
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. -- Marge Piercy
Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life. -- Paz Vega
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. -- John Cage
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. -- Tyler Cowen
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. -- C. Wright Mills
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. -- Ralph Ellison
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it. -- Susie Orbach
Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far. -- Kristin Armstrong
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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. -- Woodrow Wilson
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life. -- Mo Yan
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. -- Chin-Ning Chu
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns. -- Fritjof Capra
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
In life, understanding is the booby prize. -- Werner Erhard
Life in its highest state is understanding. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Life's experiences should turn into real understanding. -- Samael Aun Weor
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. -- Jet Li
Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding. -- Dainin Katagiri
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. -- Tyler Cowen
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third -- Marge Piercy
Life Is Just Understanding, people Just Running but why they Run? They don't know -- Sushil Singh
The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others. -- Jay Abraham
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. -- Patricia Highsmith
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. -- Brad Meltzer
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. -- Anthony Powell
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible. -- Brad Pitt
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. -- John Lennon
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life. -- Gish Jen
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become. -- Rajneesh
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. -- Lisette Model
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life. -- Charles McPhee
One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. -- Hanif Kureishi
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive. -- Benjamin Hoff
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. -- Lou Rawls
Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ... -- Paula Gunn Allen
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. -- Vincent Massey
Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try. -- Omar Suleiman
To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness. -- Jiulio Consiglio
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. -- Marcus Aurelius
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. -- Leo Tolstoy
When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... -- Leo Tolstoy
If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly. -- Aditya Ajmera
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose. -- Guy Finley
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.' -- Tullian Tchividjian
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
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one. -- Tim Robbins
My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine. -- Milton Berle
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. -- Dallas Willard
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. -- Rajneesh
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide. -- Larry Crabb
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. -- Ian Barbour
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life. -- Paul McEuen
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. -- Bob Proctor
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars. -- Mary Tyler Moore
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. -- Julian Barnes
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others. -- Jack Kornfield
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. -- James Dillet Freeman
I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women. -- Dave Matthews
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. -- Bruce Springsteen
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding -- George Steiner
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding. -- John D. Rockefeller
Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward others that they may bear witness to your belief(s). -- Ken Poirot
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. -- Wendy Beckett
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. -- Jacob Needleman
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all. -- David Cronenberg
As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good. -- Louise Hay
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. -- Ravi Zacharias
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. -- Andre Maurois
There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. -- Michelle Williams
If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today. -- Rush Limbaugh
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life. -- Albert Einstein
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
I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing. -- Claire Carver-Dias
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. -- Stephen Covey
To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. -- Leo Buscaglia
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. -- Steven Spielberg
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. -- Donald Miller
If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today. -- Rush Limbaugh
You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying. -- Alice Dreger
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community. -- Kim Edwards
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. -- Peter Ackroyd
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife. -- David Cronenberg
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself. -- Francis Crick

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