Maureen O'Hara Quotes

You can't really explain why you get on well with someone. It's instinctive.

I don't think the idea of being seen changes in its importance. I think it's always true. When relationships start to have problems, it's almost always because we don't feel seen by that person anymore.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?