being understood

soulmate

is our primary desire. We do not so much want to be loved as to be understood.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell

is not to be wished for before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. Simone Weil

is a curse. Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. Carl Jung

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. Joseph Conrad

is what we attempt to call it when one really knows us.

A misunderstood husband is one whose wife really knows him.