Quotes About Understanding

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

But I did love you then, only I didn't realize it because it was so strong, and I still do love you, even though I know I've probably blown my chance.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.