2,956 Quotes About Understanding

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

Compassion permeates all the way to the farthest reaches of the world.

Compassion permeates all the way to the farthest reaches of the Universe.

Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a thing she feared: being asked to do anything else.

It is not enough to have perceived such a notion, given it one’s attention, understood it; it must be given a permanent place in the mind, so that it may be present even when one’s attention is directed toward something else.

Each and every one of us is absolutely complete. We all contain both masculine and feminine polarities. No-thing can exist incomplete. You can only love another appropriately when you understand your own completeness.