Quotes About Understanding

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

We must learn all that we can about God, so that we may love him, and keep our love alive, and grow in love for him.

I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.

He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life.

What do any of us really know about others? Each of us has his own Day of Judgement inside himself.

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

Signor di Josselin, io so che lei mi ama, e le consento di dirmelo».

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Two shlemiels were drinking tea. In time, one looked up and announced portentously: "Life! What is it? Life—is like a fountain!" The other pondered for a few minutes, then asked, "Why?" The first thought and thought, then sighed. "So okay: life isn't like a fountain.

It is only a frivolous love that cannot survive intellectual definition; great love prospers with understanding.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.