Quotes about Understanding

I was learning the truth: though I felt lonely and scared, I was the well-loved girl of God. And though these feelings of loneliness were familiar, I was coming into an understanding: just because a place has become familiar doesn't mean its where you belong.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.