#standing

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#feelings #life #understanding #life

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#understanding #value #imagination

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us. ↗

— James Robertson

#history #insight #life #mankind #past

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#understanding #love

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels. ↗

— Steve Martin

#memoir #steve-martin #love

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #power #spirituality #understanding

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile. ↗

— Helen Hollick

#marriage #respect #trust #understanding #love

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#reading #understanding #wicked #words #change

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. ↗

— Idries Shah

#technique #understanding #motivational