Quotes About Understanding

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive

If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Things must be felt with the heart.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.