Understanding
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within'. I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
