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Quotes About Understanding

Between friends there is no need of justice.
~ Aristotle
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
~ D. H. Lawrence
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
~ John Muir
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Friendship is communion.
~ Aristotle
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.
~ Unknown
Every person is a new door to a different world.
~ Unknown
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
~ Dodie Smith
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
~ Publilius Syrus
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
~ William Shakespeare
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
~ William James
Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.
~ Unknown
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
~ Coco Chanel
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.
~ Unknown
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
~ Honore de Balzac