Quotes About Understanding

Best friends become the highlight of your life and the 'lowlight' of your problems.

The purpose of relationships is not to have someone who might complete you but to have someone whom you might share your incompleteness.

Pain: An uninvited guest that comes into our lives that demands our fullest attention before it can even think about leaving us.

Some wonder why things happen, some figure out why things happen, and some wonder why things always happen to them.

Adjustments, understanding and living the moment are recipe for having a good life.

I want my life to be an example of love where even though there are problems and fights there is more of understanding, kindness and love.

Don't compare your life with others, you have no idea what their journey is all about.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Realize that not everything in life is meant to be perfectly understood. Live, let go, learn what you can, and don't worry about the things you can't change.

Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other. This person is one you could forever talk to. They understand you in a way that no one else does or ever could. This person is your soul mate, your best friend. Don't ever let them go, for they are your guardian angel sent from heaven up above

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered as if it were the first time.

Soon our conversations spilled out of the night's confinement. I surprised myself with how much there was to say, about everything, the beach and dinner and one boy or another. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

I am sure they will be very grateful." How would you know? I wanted to say. Often those men in most need hate most to be grateful, and will strike at you just to feel whole again.

I come to say that you may go, and I will help you..." Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.

It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.

On peut apprendre à une vipère à vous manger dans la main sans pour autant lui enlever le goût de mordre.

I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me." They were rash words, bu I said them with all the conviction of my heart.

She must have heard such pleas a thousand times. That is one thing gods and mortals share. Where we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.

They would both have run screaming at the first tooth. They cannot bear any pain at all. They are not like us.

I loved this about him. No matter how many times I asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.

Do not listen to your enemy...look at them. It will tell you everything.

I could not find the words that would reach him. Perhaps there were none.

I learned to sleep through the day so that I would not be tired when he returned; he always needed to talk then, to tell me down to the last detail about the faces and the wounds and the movements of men. And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.