A Quote by Marcel Proust

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust
French - Novelist
July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

I think love is the most misunderstood emotion in the universe. I don't think half the people know what real love is. And I don't think half the people on this planet have ever experienced it. If people experienced for one moment what real love is, we could never live the way we live with each other. We couldn't do to each other what we're doing. We couldn't ignore what we're ignoring. We couldn't allow it to be the way it is.

Neale Donald Walsch

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

E. F. Schumacher

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

Anita Hill

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

Anita Hill

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

John Selden

You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference.

Will Smith

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

Peter Max

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

Bing Gordon

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we're not real people that feel real things.

Jodie Turner-Smith

I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.

Ivan Moody

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

Swami Vivekananda

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

John Selden

I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone.