John O'Donohue
Related If you are never truly going to be understood at a place, then it is best that you are completely mi... APURVA GAGLANI Music allows you the opportunity to explore the depths of your heart and mind. Add words to a melody... STACY MADDOX THICH NHAT HANH BRUCE LEE AJA NAOMI KING Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. GORDON ATKINSON VENUS WILLIAMS STEVIE WONDER C. JOYBELL C. BRUCE LEE Home is not where you live, but where you are understood. CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Understanding me can be complex,But if you spend the time to peal away the layers of my fears,Here i... TANICA S HALL Why are we so driven to understand, when there is so much that can't be understood? ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't goo... BJ MORIN MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you don't LOVE YOURSELF, you wont be able to LOVE OTHERS. The basics of love, starts in loving on... RAJWIN CHANDY MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The ultimate goal of life is to understand the world by understanding yourself and understanding you... AARON SANTOS MARTHA BECK YUVRAJ SINGH Once you tap into a source for your wisdom and understanding, love and affection, giving and sharing... ROSE B MASHIGO The more you admit to your true inner most feelings and thoughts, you will gain a deeper understandi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Do you know what is the most frustrating thing in this world? It is not having someone to return to ... OUSSAMA HEDHLI R. D. LAING Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R.D. LAING DALAI LAMA Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do m... ERIC WEDDLE If you feel your wife does not understand you, i suggest you try understanding her SOTONYE ANGA SUNDAY ADELAJA RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you ... WAYNE MCGREGOR You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act. , AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES TOBA BETA The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ... JACK VALENTI It gives meaning and value to your life and also helps you have a better understanding of who you ar... ALAN MANN Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you ... NANCY HORAN It's really how you accept things, how you allow yourself to feel things, how you communicate with p... DELPHINE HIRSH ERALDO BANOVAC STEVE MARABOLI JOHN GREEN STEPHEN KING You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your lo... BERNADINE DOHRN WAYNE DYER AKIROQ BROST FLEA The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you ... JACK VALENTI TOM FRESTON JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI MORRIE SCHWARTZ MITCH ALBOM Too many lawyers really lacked an understanding of too many areas of science, and too few scientists... BEN WECHT The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to imple... TONY ORLANDO MITCH ALBOM Understanding the past, is the key to understanding the present; understand the present, and you can... ENRIQUE VEGA SHERRILYN KENYON OPRAH WINFREY GEORGE ELIOT GUY FINLEY GUY FINLEY In the end, the amount of money you spend is not proportional to how good or how quickly you feel be... DELPHINE HIRSH You are the one who seems to have no understanding of the process, WALTER SMITH TERENCE MCKENNA STEVE MARABOLI MARTHA BECK JOHN F. KENNEDY TA-NEHISI COATES SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TOM COLICCHIO Part of the answer, ... has to do with creating support systems at home that are adequate, and part ... LARRY MAGID You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that ill... KAY REDFIELD JAMISON there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. BRAD MELTZER HAROLD MACMILLAN TRACY MORGAN You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN If you cannot deliver on loyalty, faith, trust, forgiveness, honesty, understanding, love, gratitude... MUHAMMED HAIDER A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious ... HUANG PO RAINER MARIA RILKE Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you wan... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY SUNDAY ADELAJA It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own ... DAVE GAHAN TONY BUZAN GEORGE E. BERGMAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DEYTH BANGER PAULO COELHO IYANLA VANZANT DEBBIE FORD W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an unde... ALEXANDER WANG Being Yourself” means aligning your beliefs, words and actions. Be yourself, accept yourself, valu... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA CHARLES BUKOWSKI WAYNE DYER
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When you touch deep understanding and love, you are healed. 
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow --... 
Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a b... 
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human i... 
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize th... 
University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you ... 
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a... 
When you feel yourself completely free, you will feel as if you are at a wonderful seaside! 
Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it! 
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your per... 
I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affecti... 
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. 
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. 
You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself 
It is a luxury to be understood. 
If I tell you that I have seen the alien, you won't believe me, or at least you will ask for my expl... 
Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of other... 
Fear comes from a lack of understanding how powerful you really are. 
Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood. 
They understood that. They all understood it. This is not the same as comprehension, but it was good... 
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest... 
Take the time to reflect and get to know yourself. Understanding yourself and your behavior is an in... 
When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes ... 
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As ... 
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. 
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... 
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... 
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... 
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rul... 
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. 
If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the worl... 
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really
need is understanding. 
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. 
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? 
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgmen... 
I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think t... 
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourse... 
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. 
It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but ... 
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat... 
I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when y... 
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and sc... 
Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior 
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understandin... 
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were. 
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were. 
Real, true and unshakable peace comes from above. With such peace, you sleep soundly even in the mid... 
No need to feel shame for what you are. 
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never d... 
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through re... 
It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you'... 
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than... 
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good,... 
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc... 
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ... 
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon... 
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy... 
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. 
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ... 
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t... 
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t... 
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You... 
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. 
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued... 
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr... 
You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y... 
...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe... 
The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... 