Quotes about Understanding
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
A friend is another I.
- Aristotle
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
- CS Lewis
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Friendship is communion.
- Aristotle
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
- Abraham Lincoln
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
- Thomas Monson
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
- Anne Lamott
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus