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Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
~ Unknown
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
~ Sylvia Bremer
Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
~ Unknown
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
~ Charles Bukowski
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
~ Unknown
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
~ Jonathan Swift
Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.
~ Unknown
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~ Eric Hoffer
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
~ Seneca
The only ship that never sinks is a true friendship
~ Unknown
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
~ Unknown
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
~ Gelett (Frank) Burgess
In a friend you find a second self.
~ Unknown
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~ David Tyson Gentry
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
~ Robert Frost
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
~ Unknown
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
~ Unknown
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
~ Garth Henrichs
Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.
~ Unknown
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski