--- title: "1 Man Understanding Quotes By Mira Jacob" description: "1 Man Understanding quotes by Mira Jacob. Plus more from Mira Jacob and more Man Understanding sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/mira-jacob-31109_becoming-a-man_nobody-likes-these-things-life-hands-us_236670.jpg" --- > [“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running all the time. It's time you learned how to do that.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/nobody-likes-these-things-life-hands-us-but-part-of-becoming-a-man-is/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/mira-jacob-31109_becoming-a-man_nobody-likes-these-things-life-hands-us_236670.jpg) ## More by Mira Jacob > [“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/nobody-likes-these-things-life-hands-us-but-part-of-becoming-a-man-is/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/amina-would-not-know-herself-until-years-later-when-she-understood/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/was-it-always-this-way-did-everyone-from-high-school-end-up-looking/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/gina-rodgers-raised-her-hand-triggering-a-class-wide-bristle-everyone/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/cooking-was-a-talent-of-her-mother-s-that-amina-often-thought-of-as/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/mindy-lujan-with-her-feathered-hair-bullying-blue-lined-eyes-and/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/why-do-fathers-look-ungainly-in-their-daughter-s-bedrooms-like/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much stronger than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/why-is-it-that-fathers-so-often-ensure-the-outcome-they-are-trying-to/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/and-even-if-amina-didn-t-yet-know-what-it-was-to-love-like-that-to/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/an-hour-later-amina-stood-at-a-pay-phone-in-a-mall-hallway-where-poop/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/somehow-all-the-talk-about-tenure-and-anthropology-had-given-her/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/like-many-people-whose-lives-had-formed-around-a-particularly-painful/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/of-course-he-had-a-female-following-was-there-anything-college-girls/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“Thank God for Saturday mornings. A reprieve from the familiar, a day unworn by routines. Anything was possible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/thank-god-for-saturday-mornings-a-reprieve-from-the-familiar-a-day/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) > [“The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-jacob/the-band-in-the-ballroom-announced-the-cover-of-a-special-request-and/) [Mira Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-jacob/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-understanding/mira-jacob/#itemlist", "name": "1 Man Understanding Quotes By Mira Jacob", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running all the time. 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