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  • 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
  • There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. -- Shirley MacLaine
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  • If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself. -- Bruce Lee
  • The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate. -- Karl Marlantes
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  • Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it. -- Arthur Lydiard
  • One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. -- Christopher Nolan
  • There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself. -- Mike White
  • 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
  • Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. -- Tom Freston
  • I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. -- Samuel L. Jackson
  • But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. -- Hayden Christensen
  • In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. -- Dave Holland
  • If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going. -- Wayne McGregor
  • Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are. -- Cameron Diaz
  • Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. -- Nhat Hanh
  • True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
  • Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. -- Christopher Barzak
  • When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity. -- Stephen Covey
  • You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are. -- Bradley Horowitz
  • The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways. -- Wayne Dyer
  • Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. -- Susan Polis Schutz
  • Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself. -- Nikki Rowe
  • When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. -- Sally Field
  • By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it. -- Jill Scott
  • Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. -- Steve Maraboli
  • Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me. -- Joe Jonas
  • Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. -- John Hughes
  • You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play. -- Mia Wasikowska
  • Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself. -- Kathy Ireland
  • Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant. -- A. H. Almaas
  • Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away... -- BJ Morin
  • To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive... -- Malcolm X
  • Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful. -- Joy Bryant
  • You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game. -- Brad Warner
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