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Wed 4 Sep 2024

Understand

Posted by PJ under aphorisms, quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“There doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”

—Robert Brault, “Thoughts By the Sea,” The New Robert Brault Reader

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Wed 29 Jun 2022

Prism

Posted by PJ under empathy, perception, quote of the day, reality, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Variety, March 1, 2016

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Wed 30 Mar 2022

Hatred

Posted by PJ under aging, hatred, quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“As you get older you understand where things are coming from better, you know maybe why somebody is being a jerk….You know the background of things more so it’s hard to flat out hate things….Hatred is such a luxury for youth.”

—Patton Oswalt, Late Night With Seth Meyers, May 21, 2020

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Tue 1 Mar 2022

Understanding

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, science, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it’s the exact opposite!”

—Paul Dirac, quoted in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns by Robert Jungk (tr. James Cleugh)

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Fri 16 Apr 2021

Seeing

Posted by PJ under perception, quote of the day, seeing, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

—Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

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Wed 5 Aug 2020

Indulgent

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Random quote of the day:

“To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.”

—Mme. De Staël, Corinne

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Thu 25 Jun 2020

Empathy

Posted by PJ under empathy, quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“People are starting to understand the other side’s perspective, and that’s where empathy can sort of begin once you quit judging other people but just understand where they’re coming from.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Ebony, September 19, 2019

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 31 Mar 2020

The Other

Posted by PJ under gods, love, quote of the day, the other, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are.”

—Thomas Merton, letter to Dorothy Day, December 20, 1961

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Tue 12 Nov 2019

Understanding

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“I understand life less and less, and love it more and more.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, Feb. 1907 (tr. Bogan and Roget)

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Wed 23 Oct 2019

Singing

Posted by PJ under art, nature, quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand singing birds? People love the night, a flower, everything which surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting…that they must understand.”

—Pablo Picasso, interview in Cahiers d’Art, 1935

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