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The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to... by Shirley MacLaine

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

Shirley MacLaine
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shunryu Suzuki
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A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Sidney Hook
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

Shunryu Suzuki
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I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understa... by Sienna Miller

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Sienna Miller
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I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

Sidney Poitier
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So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

Shunryu Suzuki
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of... by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

Shunryu Suzuki
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There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. by Shunryu Suzuki

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Shunryu Suzuki
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The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Simon Baron-Cohen
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Sigmund Freud
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I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

Simon Sinek
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My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Simon van der Meer
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more impor... by Simon Van Booy

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Simon Van Booy
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Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understan... by Sinclair B. Ferguson

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

Sinclair B. Ferguson
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The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Sigmund Freud
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Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Simon Sinek
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Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.

Sinclair B. Ferguson
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