Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.