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Explain Quotes

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Paulo Coelho
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
Paulo Coelho

Haruki Murakami
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Abraham H. Maslow
“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
Abraham Maslow

Fredrik Backman
“Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Janet Fitch
“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

Simon Van Booy
“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.”
Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

Jack Kerouac
“It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.”
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

John Brunner
“Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.”
John Brunner, Children of the Thunder

Steve Maraboli
“Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.”
Steve Maraboli

Israelmore Ayivor
“Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Israelmore Ayivor
“Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Steven Pinker
“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Dan Chaon
“This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.”
Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

Ryū Murakami
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain themselves to people they didn't know.”
Ryū Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Nitin Namdeo
“It is useless to explain to a person who is already holding a conclusion.”
Nitin Namdeo

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Experience cannot be fully explained.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Fate” is how we explain our mistakes.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nitin Namdeo
“Not everyone can understand everything, so don’t try to explain everything to everyone.”
Nitin Namdeo

“A sensual person’s motto: Never complain and never explain. Sensuality is not supposed to be taught, it’s supposed to be caught.”
Lebo Grand

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I have a million thoughts in my head. And if I am able to adequately put a sentence to any of them I will have considered myself successful.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I have learned that while I can apply any number of words in my attempt to ‘describe’ God, I simply cannot ‘define’ God. And my inability to ‘define’ Him ‘describes’ why He is God and I am not.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steven Magee
“I received a phone text that looked like it was sent to a lover from my girlfriend. She had a story to explain it. Years later I discovered the proof of the affairs.”
Steven Magee

Nitin Namdeo
“Explain, but to yourself, not to others.”
Nitin Namdeo

Nitin Namdeo
“Do not give explanation to anyone, everyone understands only what they want to understand.”
Nitin Namdeo

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If our existence were limited to the science that attempts to explain it, our existence wouldn’t exist.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cartoons are like driving—fun to experience, impossible to explain!”
Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

Terry Pratchett
“Very good! Yes! Not true, but a very, very good lie!”
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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