The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.