When You Understand Life Quotes

#1. The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#3. When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

Robert I. Sutton

#4. When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Leon Brown

#5. Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

Heather Anastasiu

#6. When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Looking In YOUR Eyes ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#7. When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

Muriel Spark

#8. Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

David Foenkinos

#9. It's a loathsome tale, yet I'm proof of God's love. He seeks us out to be His very own. My life had been so horrible, but it all changed when I surrendered to Him. It's the most important decision you'll ever make, and I pray you will soon understand the power of God's unconditional love.

DiAnn Mills

#10. The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.

Marion Woodman

#11. When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

Maureen Murdock

#12. That's when I know they've never lost someone. If they had, they'd understand. That you always miss them. That the pain doesn't go. That life stops.

Debbie Howells

#13. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Zig Ziglar

#15. Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just go up there, do the song, and they film the video. You do it like a jillion times before that though. Same thing in the studio.

Glenn Danzig

#16. When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Ron Hall

#18. Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.

Avijeet Das

#19. Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

Steve Martin

#20. Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Idries Shah

#21. Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

Agatha Christie

#22. I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much.

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#23. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Ann Packer

#24. Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

Stacey D'Erasmo

#25. Tania, when I found you, I felt for that hour or two we were together - before Dimitri, before Dasha - that somemhow I was going to right my life." Alexander smiled bitterly. "I had a sense of hope and destiny that I can neither explain nor understand.

Paullina Simons

#26. I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!

K. Hari Kumar

#27. I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.

Shelley Berkley

#28. If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?

Francine Rivers

#29. When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.

Anthony Hopkins

#30. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Paulo Coelho

#31. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

Deanna Raybourn

#32. Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Abraham Verghese

#33. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Stewart Stafford

#34. Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.

Richard Russo

#35. Evelyn looks at me with purpose. "Do you understand what I'm telling you? When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#36. You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.

Nafisa Haji

#37. There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes

Will Donner

#38. When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Toni Sorenson

#39. I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

Chris Noth

#40. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.

Fennel Hudson

#41. Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#42. You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

George R R Martin

#43. 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

Salli Richardson

#44. You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Cesare Pavese

#45. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Alix Kates Shulman

#46. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.

Edward Hoagland

#47. When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

Allison Pearson

#48. Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'.

Peter Ames Carlin

#49. Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

Artie Lange

#50. 'It's okay. I understand that you're tempted and know you shouldn't grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'd rather eat the fucking thing, and enjoy it, even if I end up in hell.'

Barbara Elsborg

#51. I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

Juliet Stevenson

#52. Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

Stella Adler

#53. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.

Roshan Sharma

#54. When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

Linji Yixuan

#55. As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

#56. It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#57. When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

Leon Brown

#58. To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life
not existing forms of dance.

Pina Bausch

#59. When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Rick Warren

#60. I'll take you by the hand and show a world you can understand,this life is filled with hurt when happiness doesnt hurt.

Three Days Grace

#61. And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.

Joan Bauer

#62. You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

Astrid Lindgren

#63. Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Jane Wagner

#64. Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

Mikhail Prokhorov

#65. Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.

John C. Maxwell

#66. When you start to realize: you are something that is precious to me, "Debug" me as you like; and when you have understand "addressing byte" and "memory mapping" of my heart, then i'm implore, accept me as I am ...

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#67. Sometime in your life Allison Sekemoto you will kill a human being. The question is not if it will happen, but when. Do you understand? I didn't then, not really. I do now.

Julie Kagawa

#68. Life is so much better when your passion and calling line up. You understand the gift of your spiritual inheritance, assume responsibility for right and just choices, and you pour your signature presence into serving others.

Gloria Burgess

#69. When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Vinessa Shaw

#70. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Larry Ellison

#71. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#72. One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.

Jennifer DuBois

#73. When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Steve Maraboli

#74. It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented you from falling apart.

P.J. Bayliss

#75. The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.

Sharon Van Etten

#76. When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

#77. There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it

Madeleine L'Engle

#78. The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#79. You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Pittacus Lore

#80. When life moves you, move with it; do not place roadblocks of judgment or fear. Your fear and judgment are roadblocks on the easy path that life has chosen for you. Fear is an illusion and it is bondage. When you understand that all is good; you can live in Freedom.

Premlatha Rajkumar

#81. As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

Jaggi Vasudev

#82. When you get home after being gone for a month or two, time moves on without you. You're scrambling to catch up with the people. Some friends and family understand, but then there are others who just think that you can't find enough time in your life for them.

Sharon Van Etten

#83. Every time when we smile, the reasons could be different & people could also be different - Everyone loves you
Every time when you are sad, the reasons could be same & people could be different - Everyone doesn't understand you

Adil Adam Memon

#84. When you understand someone ... truly understand someone ... you can't help but love them. Therefore ... anyone in your life ... ANYONE ... who you feel less than love for ... you have misunderstood.

Mike Dooley

#85. When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.

James C. Dobson

#86. Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.

Brooke Elliott

#87. You understand now ... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Daphne Du Maurier

#88. You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

Joel Osteen

#89. Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Confucius

#90. When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important.

Manasa Rao

#91. Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.

Amit Ray

#92. You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

Keke Palmer

#93. When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

Toni Morrison

#94. The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don't really understand How Life Works.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#95. When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

#96. It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them

Sunday Adelaja

#97. You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.

Nikki Rowe

#98. When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.

P.A. Wunderlich

#99. And yet, as you know, living in constant white water with the changes occurring all the time at work or in life can be stressful, unless people have a way of looking at change that helps them understand it. Enter the Cheese story. When

Spencer Johnson

#100. Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

Ajahn Chah