Quotes About Understanding

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.