Quotes About Understanding

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.