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If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.


Adam Phillips


#nostalgia #understanding #life

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.


E.M. Forster


#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.


Jean Alesi


#am #cars #everything #i #i am

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.


Paulo Coelho


#understanding #love

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.


Ben Stein


#exertions #happens #itself #make #nothing

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.


John O'Donohue


#understanding #love

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.


Alain de Botton


#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.


John Hughes


#pretention #pretentiousness #respect #restaurants #snobbery

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.


Michael Crichton


#humanity #science #understanding #science

We understand more than we know.


Margaret Atwood


#science #understanding #wisdom #science






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