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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Backwards Must Only Understood Lived

Women are made to be loved, not understood. Oscar Wilde

Women Made Understood Women Are Loved

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Communicate Before Poetry Genuine Understood

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. Don Miguel Ruiz

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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Tom Hanks

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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau

Silence Words About Misunderstanding Understood Tragedy Begins Human Intercourse

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

Great Battle Reflection Nation Lost Easily Moral Great Nation Observation Well Understood Won Requires Growth Appreciate Appreciated

What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling. Irina Shayk

Beautiful Woman Happy Women Most Beautiful Men Beautiful Woman Some Someone More Never Most Attractive Make Smiling Always Understood Surgery Themselves Use Plastic Plastic Surgery Why

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell

Religion You Trouble Own Every Way One-Way Stuck Facts True Another Understood Metaphors Gets Them Then Interpreting

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling

Others Oneself Advantage Make Misunderstanding Understood Where Helpless Serve

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening. Glennon Doyle Melton

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. Leonardo da Vinci

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. Alice Walker

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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives. Chuck D

Positive People Negative Down Sliding Way Out Easy Easy Way Throughout Take Like Hill Because Understood Lot Up Mountain Times Times People Going Being Want Lives Basically

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. Junot Diaz

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen Covey

First Seek Understand Understood Then

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. John Adams

Government Better Three Other Thousand Thousand Years Advanced Practiced Sciences Understood Years Years Ago Than While Little Standstill Now Four

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. John Henrik Clarke

People World Beginning System About Only Written Most Trade Least Understood Condition Began Africa Information Centuries Europeans Started Slave

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Radhanath Swami

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