The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.
When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
For men to be virgins, we think it’s negative. We think that there’s something wrong with them.
For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers.
The best proof of love is trust.
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.
Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.
It is a man’s world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.
Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We’re behind you, so you can be you.
A philosopher is a person who doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.