Quotes About Understanding

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.

Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.