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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
Paulo Freire
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
Abigail Adams
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
Jack Kornfield
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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
M. Scott Peck
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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
David Chang
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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
Ambrose Bierce
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
Mencius
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Plautus
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Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
James Allen
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
Charles de Gaulle
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...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.
Megan McCafferty
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Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
Dave Barry
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We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.
Peter Adamson
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Rudolf Arnheim
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
Albert Einstein
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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.
Paul Fry
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Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.
Rachel Vincent
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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche