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"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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"God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom."

"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."

"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"

"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."

"If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth."

"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."

"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."

"I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper."

"Be yourself to understand others."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."
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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."

"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."

"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."

"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me."

"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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