Quotes About Understanding

"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are."

Do I believe in love at first sight? I think, like anything, you fall in love, and you see how things progress.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

I hear a funny joke, or I see something bizarre, you're the first person I want to talk to about it.

One of the most important relationships we have is the relationship we have with our mothers.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message: "You are there!".

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter. That's something.

All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Until one becomes a mother, no one can ever tell you what it will feel like to love someone else so deeply and profoundly that you will rejoice when they rejoice, ache when they ache, feel what they feel — even without ever speaking a word.

To a mother, a son is never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he understands and accepts this about his mother.

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am."

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

"My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance."

The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

A sister is both your mirror and your opposite.

We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

"The soul mate doesn't have to be a romantic relationship. Sometimes in life, you meet people when you need them, and there is an immediate connection."

"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there."