Quotes about Understanding
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
— Elbert Hubbard
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young