I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield
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  1. Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. - Paulo Coelho

  2. Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. - Haruki Murakami

  3. 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 H. Maslow

  4. I give respect and reciprocate with enthusiasm to anyone who is nice, kind and respectful towards me. I appreciate the presence of people in my life but, if someone doesn’t value mine, then I find no reason to explain my absence to them. - Latika Teotia

  5. The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love. - Kamand Kojouri

More Quotes By Katherine Mansfield
  1. Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others. .. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."( Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

  2. A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!

  3. Isn't life, ' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.' Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

  4. I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

  5. To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

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