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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Francois Fenelon

Because until we write it down, we don’t know what is actually at the root of our lives.

George A. Sheehan

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Goliarda Sapienza

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

James Elkins

Content if hence th’ unlearn’d their wants may view, The learn’d reflect on what before they knew.

Alexander Pope

It’s not finding what’s lost, it’s understanding what you’ve found.

Alice Hoffman

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

Kristin Hannah

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

Laozi

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

Sherwood Anderson

We’re only really thinking when we can’t think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Susanne Katherina Langer

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Marilynne Robinson

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Bruce Catton

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Christopher Morley

There’s something beautiful about finding one’s innermost thoughts in another.

Olive Schreiner

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Bear Grylls

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

Charles Baxter

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it

Tryon Edwards

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Wilma Rudolph

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

John Hawkes

We write to make sense of it all.

Wallace Stegner

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

John Locke

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