Quotes About Understanding

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Equals make the best friends.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.