Quotes About Understanding

Your friendship is your needs answered.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Friendship needs no words...

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

No words are necessary between two loving hearts

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.