Quotes About Understanding

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

We say to others only what we need to hear

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Look upon others as being part of yourself.