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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#self-discovery #self-understanding #change

Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later. ↗

— Toba Beta

#point-of-view #time #understanding #change

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#always #assistance #been #concept #driven

People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must. ↗

— Toba Beta

#must #new #old #resistance #change

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change. ↗

— John Barnes

#prince-amatus #understanding #change

At a deeper psychological level, the reformers' ideas of salvation introduced a major change in the way people saw their world. They could no longer free themselves from sin through magical rituals. Instead, they had to be active in adopting a new lifestyle, based on private prayer, worship, study, and individual ethical choice. This was difficult for many to do. ↗

— Fiona MacDonald

#change

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knowledge #languages #travel #understanding #communication

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand. ↗

— H.C. Paye

#missunderstand #people #speak #tell #two

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#connection #love #understanding #communication

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks ↗

— Amit Abraham

#long-distance-relationships #mobile #signals-blackout #communication