Quotes about Understanding
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
— Paulo Coelho
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
— Donald Miller
But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.
— Paulo Coelho
I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.
— Joel Osteen
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
— Andy Andrews
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
— Virginia Woolf
The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.
— Myles Munroe
Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.
— Richard Paul Evans
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
— John Wooden