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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing. -- Aidan Chambers
You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times. -- Israel Horovitz
JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly. -- Cassandra Clare
I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead! -- Jacqueline Winspear
When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents. -- Elvis Costello
The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well. -- Deborah Tannen
I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself. -- Guy Pearce
You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message. -- Mark Cuban
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say. -- Francois Mauriac
The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers. -- Alice Mattison
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize. -- Joel Stein
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. -- Brian Tracy
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. -- Arlene Croce
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. -- Wislawa Szymborska
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. -- Albert Einstein
Hard to explain to a guard dog that you need it to protect you from yourself. -- Dov Davidoff
How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? -- James Lee Burke
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. -- Tom Cruise
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. -- Bobby Ray Inman
When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. -- Dave Hickey
I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself. -- Sara Quin
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. -- Howard Hodgkin
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion. -- Mary J. Miller
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Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were. -- Dermot Bolger

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