Understood Quotes

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Seek first to understand, then to be understood. — Stephen Covey
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices… — Nicholas Sparks
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,… — John O'Donohue
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to… — Albert Camus
I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that… — Albert Camus
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the… — Edgar Allan Poe
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,… — Marilynne Robinson
Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brotherâ€™s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of… — Richard Wurmbrand
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a… — Banana Yoshimoto
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… — Fernando Pessoa
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as… — Sherman Alexie
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to… — Ann Brashares

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