Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. -Albert Einstein

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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. ― Eckhart Tolle

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. ― Susanna Kearsley

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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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