Quotes About Understanding

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love those you hate you.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand 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." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.