Quotes About Understanding

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.