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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 5: Nurturing Relationships

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

How could I have been anyone other than me?  

- Dave Matthews  

Man know much more than he understands.  

- Alfred Adler  

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.  

- Beca Lewis Allen  

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.  

- Saint Augustine  

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.  

- Sir James M Barrie  

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.  

- Charles Baudelaire  

To understand is to perceive patterns.  

- Sir Isaiah Berlin  

Understanding brings control.  

- Bonewitz  

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.  

- Pearl S Buck  

The key to why things change is the key to everything.  

- James E Burke  

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog, but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.  

- Samuel Butler  

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.  

- Gilbert K Chesterton  

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.  

- Rene Coty  

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.  

- Stephen R Covey  

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.  

- Leonardo Da Vinci  

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.  

- Leonardo Da Vinci  

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.  

- Wayne Dyer  

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.  

- Albert Einstein  

In youth we learn, in age we understand.  

- Marie E Eschenbach  

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.  

- Guy Finley  

It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.  

- Anatole France  

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.  

- J William Fulbright  

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.  

- Nikki Giovanni  

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.  

- Emma Goldman  

The motto should not be, Forgive one another, rather understand one another.  

- Emma Goldman  

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.  

- Thomas Hobbes  

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.  

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior  

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand  

- Vernon Howard  

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.  

- Vernon Howard  

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.  

- Carl Jung  

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding, you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.  

- Charles F Kettering  

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.  

- Martin Luther King Junior  

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.  

- V I Klassen  

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate, he understands.  

- Sheldon Kopp  

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely, the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears, when you give your whole attention to it.  

- Jiddu Krishnamurti  

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.  

- Lao-Tzu  

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.  

- Harper Lee  

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.  

- Kurt Lewin  

The improvement of understanding is for two ends, first, our own increase of knowledge, secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.  

- John Locke  

Folks never understand the folks they hate.  

- James Russell Lowell  

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.  

- Norvin Mcgranahan  

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.  

- Norman Vincent Peale  

What we do not understand, we cannot control.  

- Charles Reich  

Understanding is a two-way street.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

If you understand, things are just as they are, if you do not understand, things are just as they are.  

- Zen Saying  

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.  

- Sengstan  

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.  

- Baruch  

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.  

- Baruch  

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.  

- Adlai E Stevenson  

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.  

- Count Leo Tolstoy  

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.  

- Source Unknown  

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself  

- Source Unknown  

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.  

- Source Unknown  

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.  

- Veda Upanishads  

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