“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”— Charles M. Schulz, amazon.com
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com
“I understand that you care. I just sometimes feel that the people who know me best, are people I’ve never met.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com
“The next time you walk into a gallery and you see something you think is ridiculous, maybe think about what you've been trained to expect when you walk into a museum, what around you is forming your opinion, and see yourself as an active agent in determining what it is, why it is, and whether you, a…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“We can't just ignore stories that don't fit our understanding of the world. And we also shouldn't try to change them to make them fit our preconceived narratives of humanity.”— John Green, youtube.com
“The idea of good guys and bad guys is so central to our understanding of ourselves and our world that we can't abandon it.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We like narratives, like the Rebels versus the Empire, or Harry versus Voldemort, or Dora versus Swiper the fox... Like, we can stand some shades of grey in our heroes and our villains, but we love to know who the heroes are and who the villains are.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“We simply cannot understand the world as it is. And so, we construct, and it's a useful construction. And it allows us to do many amazing things, but sometimes, I just have to tell myself the thing that is definitely true, the truest things I can say, which is that I don't know.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“i think i'm beginning to understand that the only universe willing to hold me lies within”— So You're Like That, twitter.com
“If you want to be understood you've got to be understanding too. Do your part.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“In order to have the energy to write about an idea for others, it helps not quite to understand it all yet yourself.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“You don’t realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can’t understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then re…”— Lily King, amazon.com
“It took humanity 99.9% of its existence to even understand that we live on a ball of rock, circling a globe of plasma... That understanding, the act of understanding, I think, is more important, than the existence of all star stuff in the universe.”— Hank Green, youtube.com