Quotes About Understanding

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain turns off and your heart turns on.

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

Real love, I've learned, is a very, very strong form of forgiveness. I don't think people yearn for love because they hate staying home alone on Saturday night or because they dread going into restaurants alone. People want love because they want the

[Her] love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter animality into it?...Can love not be complete without it?...Is love just the name of physical excercize?

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love

Love is all you need.

Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fu..ed-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Make love, not war

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing