Understand Each Other Quotes

#1. Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

Yasmin Mogahed

#2. It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

Richard Greenberg

#3. It didn't really matter that we couldn't understand each other, what mattered were those little smiles and nods that said so much more than words.

Anne Fortier

#4. That's all there is to it. We look different, so we don't understand each other's inner thoughts, but we cherish each other in our own way. I respect you.

Sun-mi Hwang

#5. They are both unfathomably complex, the pair of them, and that's why as different as they are, they understand each other. When

Fredrik Backman

#6. Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand ... there is suffering.

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don't understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit more tolerante than it was before.

Brian Molko

#8. When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

Zhang Ziyi

#9. She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.

Paulo Coelho

#10. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

Harry Belafonte

#11. Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love!

Sun-mi Hwang

#12. Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

Osamu Dazai

#13. We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Alan Lightman

#14. I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.

George Takei

#15. When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#16. Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?

Jay Woodman

#17. Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

#18. There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other ... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose ... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Phil Jackson

#19. There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Charles Bowden

#20. INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

#22. The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Blaise Pascal

#23. There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.

Rudy Giuliani

#24. The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

Paul Auster

#25. You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Ian McEwan

#26. It were wiser to speak less of God, Whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand.

Kahlil Gibran

#27. she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn't understand a single word of the happy gibberish.

William R. Forstchen

#28. If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

John Mellencamp

#29. Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

John Dufresne

#30. Why did you become romantically involved with such a foul creature? ... ... ..
Because he's wonderful and sensitive and funny. Because we bring out the best in each other and are better people because of our love. Because when we're together, I feel like I understand my place in the world.

Richelle Mead

#31. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!

Lisa Kleypas

#32. Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Beverly Cleary

#33. Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren't these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren't we also alike?

Bahaa Taher

#34. Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

Bilal Tanweer

#35. I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Tori Amos

#36. There is the mystery of the scattering, the fact that the people who presumably understand each other are geographically scattered. A man who fits in his milieu as Frost does, is to be considered a happy man.

Ezra Pound

#37. It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#38. The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#39. Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#40. We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

John Yau

#41. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#42. There's a vast world beyond the tiny fragment that each of us inhabits, and going out into it is the only way to understand other people, their cultures and religions: you can't travel and have the sorts of experiences we were having without learning something from the interactions involved.

Ryan Pyle

#43. It is important to the peace of the world to understand each other and have full faith in each other's sincerity. That is all we ask; that is all we want[ ... ]

Harry Truman

#44. There is good and reason in us ... with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than ... fate, if only for a few hours. ... we can draw closer to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other.

Hermann Hesse

#45. I believe that the world's stability and prosperity will depend on how well China and the West understand each other, trust each other, and learn from each other.

Helen H. Wang

#46. Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Jane Goodall

#47. Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Jim Stovall

#49. Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Ry Cooder

#50. The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Dorothy Dix

#51. We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#52. The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

Ronnie Chan

#53. We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

Ameen Rihani

#54. Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.

Hermann Hesse

#56. I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

Imogen Poots

#57. I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other's humanness. None of us is perfect.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#58. I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

Josephine Baker

#59. In truly understanding the Goddess and God, one comes to understand life, for the two are inextricably entwined. Live your earthly life fully, but try to see the spiritual aspects of your activities as well. Remember - the physical and spiritual are but reflections of each other.

Scott Cunningham

#60. Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

Betty Eadie

#61. I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different

Philippa Gregory

#62. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.

James Rozoff

#63. I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

Audre Lorde

#64. ? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them. Margaret Bouchard

Ted Magnuson

#65. As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

Paulo Coelho

#66. What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

John Keats

#67. What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn't really relevant.

Laurent Schwartz

#68. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.

Loretta Chase

#69. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

#70. One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers rarely say anything positive about each other.

Elif Shafak

#71. I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.

Jenny Downham

#72. The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

Fritz Sauckel

#73. I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other.

Brock Adams

#74. Maybe that's the problem with generations. You start to forget what it was like when you were like them, so they become your enemy and you become theirs and nobody understands each other. Then you die and they become you and finally, finally they understand, but by then it's too late.

Chuck Wendig

#75. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond De Goncourt

#76. I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Karl Kraus

#77. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Henrik Ibsen

#78. The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Nancy Thayer

#79. It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

May Sarton

#80. The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.

Carson Grant

#81. It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#82. All this I am projecting, of course. I'll never know for sure. We can't fully understand what plagues each other's hearts, much less our own at times. Ultimately even our best friends are unknowable to us.

Don Lee

#83. You love your people but you don't understand them. They find God in each other. And when they lose each other, they lose God and they're lost. And it's hard to help them

Tennessee Williams

#84. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.

Betty Smith

#85. If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#86. You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

Ray Davies

#87. Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?

Laini Taylor

#88. What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

Robert Hood

#89. I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Stephen King

#90. The only way we can come to understand other beings is by tainting them with a bit of ourselves. When we are all covered by the same filth it is possible to understand earch other - and to believe in each other.

Karin Altenberg

#91. Let us say that this, all of this, has a logic to it. We understand each other, don't we? Are we not, you and I, both of us spirits?
Reader, do not ask me who at this very moment is dreaming you.
Do not ask me when you are going to die.
Do not ask me where the gold is buried.

Dan Chaon

#92. The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.

Paolo Pellegrin

#93. And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?

Helene Wecker

#94. Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Christopher Columbus

#95. We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

Chris Pine

#96. The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

Dalai Lama

#97. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

Jamel Shabazz

#99. Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.

Christopher Barzak

#100. We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

Brigham Young