Quotes About Understanding

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

A friend is another I.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Your friend will argue with you.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.