Appreciate people who can see these three things in you: the sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind your silence.
Quotes about understanding relationships
1) “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – Anaïs Nin
2) “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” – Martha Gellhorn
3) “Love is when you can understand each other’s silences.” – Avijeet Das
4) “Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside.” – Sarah Dessen
5) “One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” – John O’Donohue
6) “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
7) “True love is born from understanding.” – Gautama Buddha
8) “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach
9) “When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.”– Charles Simmons
10) “When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” – Catherine Gilbert Murdock
11) “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller