We really have to understand the person we want to love.
by Thich Nhat Hanh
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Sayings by Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh 
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Really Sayings
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
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Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
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Get up-close-and-personal:
Life looks different when you really get involved.
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In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Understand Sayings
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Person Sayings
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
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