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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Who does understand life?

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.