Quotes About Understanding

Instead of fighting with your girl and being upset, put yourself in their shoes. There might just be more to the story that you don't know.

Being upset with someone actually bringa you back together.

No matter how much a friend has upset you, you should talk to them and sort things out, life is too short to be angry over trivial things.

You've never realized how weird your friends are until you have to describe them to someone else.

Being crazy doesn't annoy others that understand it, it annoys only the ones unwilling to try and understand.

Best friends are the people who know how crazy and weird you are and still choose to be seen in public with you!

In the end, you'll know who really loves you. They're the one who see you for who you are and no matter what always find a way to be at your side.

I'm falling in love with you, not because of how you look, but because of who you are,

Some people would always want to tell us who we are, without even taking time to know us. Let them keep guessing while we keep living.

The best parts of you will only be appreciated by the one who deserves you.

The person you need to be loved by should love you for who you are, not for what they want you to be.

Whoever you are, that doesn't matter because I already love the way you are.

A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be

Swann's words might have had the result of distorting my eventual understanding of the sonata, as music is so versatile, too prone to suggestion to exclude entirely whatever somebody hints we might hear in it.

Mas as coisas que sabemos, temo-las, se não entre as mãos, pelo menos no pensamento, onde as dispomos à nossa vontade, o que nos dá a ilusão de uma espécie de domínio sobre elas.

But I had long since ceased trying to extract from a woman the square root of her unknown, as it were, which did not often survive a simple introduction.

You will find the Comte de Crisenoy," whom I had never lost, for the simple reason that I did not know him.

the purpose of life now appeared to me as the pursuit not of truth but of loving-kindness, and

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

The most mysterious, most simple, most atrocious revealed herself in the answer which she made me with an air of disgust and the exact words to tell the truth I could not quite make out (even the opening words, for she did not finish her sentence). I succeeded in establishing them only a little later when I had guessed what was in her mind. We hear things retrospectively when we have understood them

ceux qui apprennent sur la vie d'un autre quelque détail exact en tirent aussitôt des conséquences qui ne le sont pas et voient dans le fait nouvellement découvert l'explication de choses qui précisément n'ont aucun rapport avec lui.

at that time I still supposed that it was by means of words that one communicated the truth to others.

A book is the product of a different self from the one we manifest in our habits, in society, in our vices. If we mean to try to understand this self it is only in our inmost depths, by endeavoring to reconstruct it there, that the quest can be achieved.