What I don’t understand will sometimes drive me crazy.  

Whenever I think I understand human nature, I get thrown a curve ball and am forced to realize I don’t, and possibly never will.  Within the past five years I’ve been surprised to discover several people who were close to me became someone else while I wasn’t looking. 

Recently a friend pointed out to me to understand madness is to make it a part of you.  Now I spend less time and energy attempting to understand the hows and whys within human nature since so few people understand themselves; what drives their actions; and/or are unable to take an honest look themselves because doing so would require them to acknowledge they don’t like the person they’ve become.

When I do contemplate the darkness within others, I often turn to these quotes to help me understand people and their follies.  Perhaps they will help you do so as well:

“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” Aldous Huxley 

“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.” Aldous Huxley

“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.”  Aldous Huxley

“They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.” Dorothy Parker

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams

“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.” Irwin Federman