“I wish you clarity today. Clarity of thought, clarity of expression, a direct line between what you feel and what to do about it.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”— Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org
“Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”— Tariq Ramadan, tariqramadan.tumblr.com
“None of us understand what we’re doing but we do beautiful things anyway.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself, and only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really am.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Much of our life is spent wishing others understood us better than they do.”— Gordon Allport, onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“When we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we're woven together, our intentions bring benefits.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”— Claire Bowman, narrativemagazine.com