Quotes About Understanding

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.

Reason is not what decides love.

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

Monsieur, c'est trop d'honneur que vous me voulez faire; Mais l'amitié demande un peu plus de mystère, Et c'est assurément en profaner le nom Que de vouloir le mettre à toute occasion. Avec lumière et choix cette union veut naître; Avant que nous lier, il faut nous mieux connaître, Et nous pourrions avoir telles complexions, Que tous deux du marché nous nous repentirions.

Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.

Mais la grande marque d'amour, c'est d'être soumis aux volontés de celle qu'on aime.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

si vous m'aimez, monsieur, vous devez vouloir tout ce que je veux.

But reason does not govern love.

WHAT, WILL THE star which is bent on driving me to despair allow me no time to breathe? Am I to see, through their mutual understanding, my watchful care and my wisdom defeated one after another? Must I, in my mature age, become the dupe of a simple girl and a scatter-brained young fellow?

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit with,hardly saying a word, and then walk away feeling like that was[the]best time you've ever had

The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another.

You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting it is? the comfort and safety in it? how you can let silence lie between you without it taking on any weight? how you can let words out of your mouth without wariness or precision because you know your sister will listen to what's worthwhile and let the rest fall out of her ears into the air? how you can be surly, unreasonable, stupid, in the certainty of her grace?

For a woman, there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Women couldn't identify with her and didn't support her.

Food is a constant flashpoint between mother and daughter. Aroon

She writes better than anyone else about the mother–daughter relationship, in all its thorny, fraught, inescapable complexity.

This is where I lived – she lived there, too. I could see it in her face. Her eyes. The way she carried herself. In the place between what we wanted and what we had. And this is where all the pain lived.