Quotes about Understanding

Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.

Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

You can't get mercy unless you give it. You can't receive compassion unless you give it.

each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

My pain is your pain because all pain is the same

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.