And as he spoke of understanding,
by Black Elk
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
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Understanding Sayings
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
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Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The loving energy that I radiate into this world
is a gift beyond my own understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
Up Sayings
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Never give up.
- Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick ourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
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