I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.
If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.
Tags: inspirational poetry profound human-nature understanding humankind
grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing
Jay WoodmanTags: children poem understanding woods
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
Barack ObamaTags: politics religion understanding understanding-others respect tolerance civil-rights cruelty homosexuality understanding-oneself-and-others
The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.
Georgia O'KeeffeTags: world nature infinity understanding smallness
The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?"
I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.
Tags: life existence understanding leonardo-da-vinci post-mortem dissection matteo
He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.
Christopher PaoliniTags: day writing understanding journal
Learn to see what you are looking at.
Christopher PaoliniTags: understanding observation
There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.
Melika Dannese HickTags: cynicism trust understanding resignation recognition realization weariness soulmate world-weariness partners kindred-spirits zigmund-fertig olga-belododia
All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.
Rasheed OgunlaruTags: wisdom happiness acceptance purpose understanding possibility foolish appreciation inner-peace wise life-lesson living-life-to-the-full inspiring-quotes rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes appreciating-life
If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.
AvakruthTags: life understanding meaning confusion compulsion
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