The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.

You never know what someone else is thinking, so don't waste too much time guessing. The world will do as it pleases. Amuse yourself with things you understand, and be surprised by the rest.

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.

I shout, but no one hears. I cry, but no one listens. I listen, but no one speaks. I question, but no one answers . You call, I follow. You cry, I help. I question, but you don't answer. I search, but you're not there. Still, I keep listening, hearing and hoping for someone to just understand.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

She could see her, too, quite detached in the looking glass, and it was impossible that the black dot, leaning forward, gesticulating, should make the yellow dot, sitting solitary, self-centered, feel what the black dot was feeling, yet they pretended.

No one feels another's grief, no one can understand another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by.

You never truly know someone until you've walked a mile in his shoes.

Don't criticize what you don't understand.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

If you do not understand your friend under all conditions you will never understand him.

Dad says I'll understand when I grow up. He tells me that all the time now and I want to be big like him so that I can understand everything. It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything.

For all the times I never said the things I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood.

This time, I certainly don't ask for understanding.

I notice this and understand this, only because it has happened.

You never spoke or tried to come up close. Why did I want so badly to get through to you?

How could she find a way out of something she didn't even understand?

It is hard to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives gangasrotagati among men who think and live differently.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

I could fill a thousand pages, telling you how I felt, but you still wouldn't understand. So now I leave without a sound except my heart shattering as it hits the ground.