Quotes about Understanding
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
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Francis de Sales
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
— Elbert Hubbard
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
— Abraham Lincoln
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
— Henri Nouwen