#grasp

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ↗

— Buddha

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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

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

— Wilma Rudolph

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The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. ↗

— William Shatner

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