#under

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoyevsky #notes-from-the-underground #slave #age

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#attracts #audiences #easy #exciting #great

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #computer #life #look #mess

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red. ↗

— Randall Terry

#christian #defined #duty #jesus #red

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 care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. ↗

— Aimee Carter

#hades #henry #love #relationships #love

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