“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.”

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Canadian writer 1935

Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader

Singapore, (17 February 2017)[citation needed].

“I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Thom Merrilin
(15 September 1992)

“No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”

Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 33 (p. 684)

“Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Someone who strives on behalf of widows and the poor is like someone who fights in the way of Allah." I think that he also said, "And like someone who continually stands at night in prayer and like someone who continually fasts."”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 265
Sunni Hadith

“It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital, and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church — bless all the churches — and blessed be to God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

To the 1864 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as quoted in Abraham Lincoln : A History Vol. 6 (1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay, Ch. 15, p. 324
1860s

“We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "confidential" or "classified."”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump campaign speech in Greenville, North Carolina http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-classified-information/ (6 September 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, September

“People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[199710221710.KAA24242@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation’s Edge

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Source: Foundation's Edge
Context: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“Punk: "The WWE Championship, in its physical form, was stolen from me and is currently held by someone who doesn't deserve it. Someone who doesn't pay the price. Someone who doesn't understand what it means... to be champion."”

Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist

February 04, 2013
WWE Raw

“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.”

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