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Quotes About Understanding

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
~ William James
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
~ Samuel Johnson
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?
~ John Green, Paper Towns
If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.
~ Jeanie Thompson
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.
~ Marty Rubin
Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.
~ Veronika Jensen
Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.
~ Kristen Callihan, Shadowdance
Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!
~ Carmela Dutra
I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.
~ R.J. Palacio
If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.
~ Christine Upton
Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
~ Unknown
So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.
~ R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.
~ Jean-Henri Fabre
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
~ Edith Wharton
In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Great friendship is never without anxiety.
~ Unknown
Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.
~ Anonymous
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
~ Thomas Paine
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
~ Voltaire