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“Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.”

Ends Helping Death Understanding Knowing Dying Contrary Relax Death And Dying Reincarnation Dying Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.”

Ifs Trying Understanding Attitude Wise Letting Go Compassionate Rebirth Incarnation Just Let Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.”

Way Art Different Reason Life Is Culture House Understanding Car Expression Cold Comfort Civilization Protect Comfortable Rain Overcoming Distance Heat Exception Understanding Each Other

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.”

Wells Might Fun Understanding Sound Smart Originals Yeah Titles Explosions Pretentious Really Smart Inception Prometheus

Author:Damon Lindelof

“There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.”

Needs Running Beautiful Moving Order Understanding Saws Hair Scene Clothes Caught Chains Faster Obsessed Get Away Texas Chasing Tangled Massacres Really Beautiful Chainsaw Running Fast

Author:Christopher Bollen

“In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.”

Bigs Individual Understanding Issues

Author:Laura Poitras

“The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.”

People Use Understanding Instinct Appeals Establishment Transcendent Rationale Why We Do What We Do

Author:Norman Lear

“I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.”

Ifs Art Different Play Certain Understanding Areas South Tongue Delicate Accents Syllables Slick

Author:Yelawolf

“Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.”

Humanity Understanding Strive Obscure Strife

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.”

Knows Wisdom Understanding Wise Fool Despair Comprehending

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.”

May Understanding Views Circumstances Permanent Arrangements Day To Day Stereotype Alliances

Author:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”

Believe Wells Mean Persons Made Christian Belief Understanding Christianity Obedience Reverence Good Christian Inquisitive

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants”

Ifs Want Asks Wish Understanding Philosopher Want U

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.”

People Needs Understanding Respect Caring Sincere Reach Out Love Respect Sincere Love

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.”

Giving Wells May Order Understanding Sound Ears Harmony Notes Strikes Proportion Pace Spheres

Author:Thomas Browne

“No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.”

Long Understanding Periods Short Life

Book:History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

Source: History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

“There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.”

Firsts Action Understanding

Book:Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

“Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.”

People Humans Reason Understanding Roles Affair Mysticism Belonging Divides Crave Prominent

Book:The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.”

Problem Understanding Please

Author:Albert Einstein

“Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.”

Thinking Understanding Creativity Casts Spells Haze Hypnotic

Author:Albert Einstein

“In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.”

Understanding Prayer Taken Dust Worms Remarks Tacit

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.”

Certain Language Understanding Communication Doorstep

Author:Malcolm X

“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.”

Ifs Way Would Be Felt Understanding Influence Self Love One Way Spite Carrie Wiser Leading Me

Author:Ovid

“We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.”

Knows Way Littles Understanding Drink Deeper Desperation Inhale Before Death

Author:May Sarton

“Obedience completes itself in understanding.”

Understanding Obedience

Book:The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

Source: The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

“We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.”

Way Want Desire Understanding Achieve Consideration Artificial True Understanding

Author:Dalai Lama

“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”

Wish Understanding Poor Understood Trade Painter

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.”

People Important Matter Understanding Judging Ears Eloquence

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.”

Thinking Should Children Persons Reading Understanding Wise Wise Person Blockheads

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.”

People World Care Understanding Hundred Don't Care Twelve

Book:Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.”

Men World Sometimes Understanding Ignorance Conquer Great Power Lack Of Understanding Conquer The World

Author:Anatole France

“So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.”

Feels Littles I Can Reason Feelings Understanding My Own Grief Wonder Particular Justify

Book:Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

“The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.”

People Understanding Progress Essence Surprise Analysis

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Drawing is your understanding of form.”

Form Understanding Drawing

Author:Edgar Degas

“It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”

Difficult Understanding Impossible Judging

Author:Odilon Redon

“Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.”

Understanding Simple Simplicity

Book:Simplicity

Source: Simplicity

“The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.”

Pain Grows Understanding Love Is Leaving Prelude Understanding Yourself

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.”

Understanding Someday Neurosis

Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

“We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

“One can do something if one can see and understand it.”

Ifs Understanding Can Do Can Do Something

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

Ifs Wells Might Understanding Painting Paint

Book:50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

Source: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”

Ifs Way Heart Running Understanding Lines Clear Meditation Habit Mouths Foolish Unclear

Author:Richard Mitchell

“So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.”

Ifs Success Understanding Compassion Greater Growing Privilege Manage If I Could Aloof

Author:Catherine Marshall

“There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.”

Joy Understanding Contentment

Author:Mooji

“In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.”

Should Sometimes Reason Order Understanding Growth Common Cutting Phrases Unnecessary Superfluous

Author:Eli Siegel

“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

“Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.”

Used Culture Language Understanding Perspective Unique Tools Embedded

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?”

Men Want Kind Asks Understanding Too Much Husband Clever Thank You Valentine Valentine's Day Millionaire Funny Love Funny Valentines Day St Valentine Humorous Valentine I Want A Guy

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor