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Did your parents care that he was white?" "They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me. With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.

Disappointment resides in expectation. Showing a little regard creates consideration, which results in understanding. Steps to a peace of mind.

Discover and understand the true essence of time so as to know how best to utilize and effectively manage it

Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've done? If it had a name, he says, what would that change, exactly? Would it be more acceptable to you? Would it be a thing people do? Would it have a category unto itself?

Does it scare you to break inside or are you hiding the remnants of a broken you?

Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your life, yet I stand here, frozen in the midst of your spirit.

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.

Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.

Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comforting shade just because you see its present fruitlessness. Just sit under it and endure the scorching sun, one day, its branches will give you comfort and its fruits will give you smiles and nourish your body!

Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

Don't get so lost in their words. Pay attention to their actions

Don’t just pray, but reach out in prayer to get an understanding of God’s plan, of His revelation and vision for your life.

Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.

Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.

Don't try too hard to understand things. Be easygoing. That's the best.

Don't try to understand things and you won't feel confused.

Don't try to understand and you won't be confused.

Don't try to understand me , you will lost in Maze.

Do what you will, sublimate it, escape from it, deny it or accept it, give it full rein—it is always there. And we know how the religious teachers and others have said that we should be desireless, cultivate detachment, be free from desire—which is really absurd, because desire has to be understood, not destroyed. If you destroy desire, you may destroy life itself. If you pervert desire, shape it, control it, dominate it, suppress it, you may be destroying something extraordinarily beautiful.

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Dreams that are huge take an effort that many people do not realize or understand.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, the possible.

During a conversation, it is better to have an understanding without words, than words without understanding.

Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting.

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

Empathy is the door to wisdom.

Engage the past with knowledge, the present with understanding, and the future with wisdom.

En realidad, ver, oír y sentir son propiedades del cerebro que los sentidos limitan y ordenan. De allí podemos vislumbrar dos planteamientos esenciales: cómo es que pensamos y qué es ser conscientes, y la única manera de entender el mundo en que vivimos es que empecemos por fin a entendernos a nosotros mismos. (Gabriel García Márquez - prólogo literario)

Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen [...]

During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close.

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

Enlightenment is gained through ignorance. Ignorance proceeds sorrow, pain and suffering. Refinement through pain come wisdom and knowledge which in turn becomes enlightenment and to know better is to do better.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks

Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.

Ever since you and I were boys of fifteen, I have been in countless battles, from skirmishes to giant wars that determined the fate of nations; if there is one thing I have learned from all that experience, Garanth, it is that battles are alive. Battles are living things. As with beasts, you must try to know them, you must handle them with care and some love, but you must never take your eyes off them, or they will go for your throat. Battles are wild beasts that can never be truly tamed, Garanth. You need both a whip and meat if you want them to turn on your foes and not yourself. The general . . . does not understand this.

Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance. I think it's More Important to have a Beautiful Mind. Stop Comparing Yourselves Amongst Yourselves. Nobody is like You and Never will be You. Stop being Jealous of Others. Stop Hating on Others. Appreciate your Qualities and Characteristics.

Every element of understanding of the physical world has flexibility.

Every human in this world is greedy.

Every major outward change must first begin in the mind .So for us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people. The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.

Everyone in this world perform their ‘duty’. But when one performs the ‘duty’ and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]