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Quotes About Understanding

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
~ Leo Buscaglia
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
~ Arrigo Boito
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
~ Samson Raphael Hirsch
No one can make me cry Make me laugh Make me smile Or drive me mad like she does
~ Kenny Chesney
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
~ Miles Franklin
A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.
~ Dalai Lama
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
~ Nhat Hanh
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
~ Samuel Beckett
You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.
~ Drake
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
~ Toni Morrison
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
~ Ajahn Chah
Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.
~ Shel Silverstein
If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.
~ Tadeusz Borowski
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
~ Booth Tarkington
Reaching out takes nothing more than a smile.
~ Ron Kaufman
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
~ Ricky Gervais
The little things are most worthwhile- a quiet word, a look, a smile.
~ Margaret Lindsay
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
~ William Blake
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."
~ Fleur Adcock
Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
~ Angelique Kidjo
Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.
~ Amy Poehler