Quotes About Understanding

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.