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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #tranquility #understanding #development

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?). ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #question #tyson #battle

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bless #blessed #blunders #forget #forgetful

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#moving-on #understanding #memory

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstood #philosophical

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#existence

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#genius #misunderstood #genius

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#understanding #intimacy

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#science #understanding #experience