Quotes about Understanding
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
— Thomas Merton
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
— Victor Hugo
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
— GK Chesterton
Love is a two way street.
— Anonymous
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
— Les Brown
Love is willing to wait instead of demanding,prove you care.
— Anonymous
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
— CS Lewis
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
— Anonymous
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
— Robert Frost