Quotes from Joyce Brothers

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

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.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

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.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they will love forever.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

The best proof of love is trust.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.