Understanding proverbs

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◆ Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

- Euripides99

◆ Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

- Hayley Williams99

◆ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie99

◆ In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

- John Steinbeck99

◆ Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

- Richard Bach99

◆ To perceive is to suffer.

- Aristotle99

◆ The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

- James Patterson99

◆ One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

- John O'Donohue99

◆ For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

- Carl Sagan99