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We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

Trevanian

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Trevanian
American - Writer
June 12, 1931 - December 14, 2005

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Anouilh

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

John Baldessari

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

Umberto Eco

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

Esther Perel

I'm one of those girls who enjoys the fashion, enjoys dressing up, enjoys going to these events. They're fun for me. It's like playing a different side of my personality every time, so I look at it as like a fun element of what we do.

Jenna Dewan

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

John Rawls

The obvious is always least understood.

Klemens von Metternich

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

Sheila Heti

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

Bjork

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

Jacques Maritain

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Jacques Lacan

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Paulo Freire

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

Dallas Willard

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

Kenneth Goldsmith

I'm a man who enjoys people, enjoys a good time.

Alan J. Dixon

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