Understanding Life Quotes

“Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“When we understand people;
when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters;
when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;
when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
― David Attenborough

“The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that you are absurd? There is the basic stuff of life in your, isn't there? You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection! To reach perfection there must first be much we do not understand. And if we understand too quickly we will probably not understand very well. I tell this to you who have been able to understand so much and - do not understand.'

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“I am responsible for what I said, I am not responsible for what you have not understood”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the best choice. Sometimes, you may take a step forward only to notice that a step backwards could have been better; and sometimes, you may only come to a later understanding that stepping aside could have been a great choice, but in all, before you take a step, ponder! The footprint of whatever step is what matter and it must be distinctive”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“All we ever want to be is,
Understood.”
― Sandesh Hukpachongbang

“When we are sad we understand life!”
― Avijeet Das

“He heard the back door open and close. Carol, of course. Smelled her before he could see her. He’d never asked them when the affair began but always presumed it ran along invisible tracks parallel to his parents’ marriage. Mum had the painting and he had Carol. Truce.
/It’s hard being born here, breathing this air. It becomes part of you, whether you want it to or not. Those lights become dawn and dusk.
Mum used to say that.
Did she? We were friends once.
I never knew that.
In the early days, we were. But the she seemed to withdraw. Rarely went out with your dad anymore. Maybe it was being a new mum. I reckon you were enough for her. Lucky Dora, we used to say.
Ellis put his arm around her shoulder./
It was hard for us, wasn’t it? Getting to know each other?
We know each other now, said Ellis.
Yeah.
And you know you’re too good for him.
I know, said Carol, and they laughed.
Do you think he’s alright? said Ellis, looking back to the house.
Course he is. He’s just used to being a bastard. He’s one of them men who discovered later on that he’s got a heart.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“The only way we will love our neighbor as ourselves is by getting to know our neighbors, even in the midst of our differences.

The only way to truly know someone is by being with them, by conversation.”
― Eric Overby

“On the whole, people are beginning to understand. Any fellow who's known war, fear, who thinks of his children and of the hydrogen tests, and of political oppression, is beginning to understand that the protection of nature concerns him directly. . .”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“It take time to understand things that happen in life. Life unfolds slowly in the mind.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Livet forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“The character traits which you do not appreciate about another person are also the very same tools that person has used to circumnavigate their life. We must not face another individual while bearing criticism for what we don't approve about them, because the traits people develop are their necessary tools applied to their own unique lives. Instead of criticizing, ask yourself, what kind of a life has this other person lived, that require such tools to be necessary. And what tools might you be yielding as a result of your own distinct journey, that others may also not understand?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“This is the law of life, its real meaning, that we cannot impose our experience on other people, or force them to feel suggested emotions. Only through personal experience do we understand life.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“Even Mr. Audubon's beautiful paintings that I have long admired--all were done in death. He would shoot the birds down, then re-create their beautiful details. I was foolish to not realize it sooner. Why, in our efforts to understand and observe life, must we so often snuff it out?”
― Eowyn Ivey, To The Bright Edge of the World

“Sometimes there are things we never understand, that are best left alone. - Wise Archbishop of Canterbury”
― C.R. Stewart

“هي بداية ستحل كل الالغاز .... ( من أنا ) ...”
― Hesham Nebr

“I too have often felt the need to understand it all; but I know my limits. In my life I've done more suffering than thinking — though I believe one understands better that way.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“If you want to understand life, you must think. Yes, think!”
― Olawale Daniel

“When criticism becomes the only means of attaining hardship, you endure defeat and self awareness and chasten a child who rebukes himself and never neglect the shadows of reflexes .”
― Ben Jr Grey

“The power of your journey is hugely related to connection and alignment which are not to be taken lightly.”
― Germany Kent

“We have been programmed to fear what we don’t understand, and we don’t understand the truth of ourselves.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness : Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth

“you can't fight forever
you have to comply
if your life isnt working
you have to ask why
~howl”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library