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Quotes About Understanding

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
~ Steven Pinker
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
~ E. C. Bentley
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
~ Unknown
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.
~ Alan Carr
Best friends are people you know you don't need to talk to every single day. You don't even need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it's like you never stopped talking.
~ Unknown
If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!
~ Tyler Blackburn
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
~ Anais Nin
In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.
~ Dave Matthews
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
~ Anne Roiphe
What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
~ Unknown
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
~ Libba Bray
To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship.
~ Richard G. Scott
It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.
~ John Henry Newman
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
~ Alexander Pope
Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.
~ Jo Coudert
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
~ Anne Bronte
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.
~ Shannon Hale, Enna Burning