Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how I live and love and think and see the world. But then, I got older and I cared less about what other people think.

Spend less time trying to change someone and more time trying to love and understand them.

In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

بدلاً من إدانة الناس دعنا نحاول أن نفهمهم.. هذا مفيد جداً خير من الانتقاد وبالتالي فإنه يولد العاطفة والحب والتسامح..كي تفهم الجميع، سامح الكل

I thought I would be understood without words.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. — <i>[Sara]</i>

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

"You've always been fond of understanding people too well."
"They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily."

The older I grow, the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.

the fact of not being understood by others had been my sole source of pride since my early youth, and I had not the slightest impulse to express myself in such a way that I might be understood. When I did try to clarify my thoughts and actions, I did so with no consideration whatsoever. I do not know whether or not this was because I wanted to understand myself. Such a motive is in accord with a person's real character and comes automatically to form a bridge between himself and others

اقر بأنني سعيت وراء أناس لأنهم يملكون الملايين، ولم أكن اسعى في ذلك وراء أموالهم، بل خبرتهم.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.