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Quotes About Understanding

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.
~ Robert Breault
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
~ Aristotle
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
~ Angel Olsen
In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.
~ Asghar Farhadi
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.
~ Jim Palmer
Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.
~ John Bush
No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.
~ Graham Norton
I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
~ Steve Harvey
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
~ Roger Ebert
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.
~ Miranda Kerr
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
~ Ziggy Marley
Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
Love, honor, and negotiate.
~ Alan Loy McGinnis
It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
~ Dorothy Richardson
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
~ Muhammad Ali
The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.
~ Nadya Suleman
In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
~ Paulo Coelho
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
~ Satish Kumar