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Quotes About Understanding

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
~ Duane Michals
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
~ George H. W. Bush
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
~ bell hooks
It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.
~ Rob Delaney
When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.
~ Iris Apfel
It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
~ Harry Callahan
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.
~ Henri Nouwen
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
~ Miroslav Volf
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
~ Tony Hoare
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
~ Jean Dieudonne
Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.
~ Ani DiFranco
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
~ Publilius Syrus
It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
~ Aesop
Age is not important in relationship
~ Yoseob
I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
~ Anthony Kiedis