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"We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards."
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"Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards."
"The search only ends when you finally find the one who truly gets you."
"One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him."
"The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love."
"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."
"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."
"In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions."
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."
"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
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"Humans don't make sense."If you're only now learning that, Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention."
"Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring."
"You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did."
"Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child."
"The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits."
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
"Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be."Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Kelsier promised."
"Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth."
"Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?"
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