John Gray
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.Collection: Chance
When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.Collection: Encouragement
Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.Collection: Success
To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.Collection: Love
Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.Collection: Love
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understoodCollection: Stress
The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance.Collection: Communication
Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love .Collection: Memories
A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.Collection: Relationship
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.Collection: Relationship
when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossomCollection: Men
We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.Collection: Relationship
You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.Collection: Love You
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.Collection: Relationship
When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.Collection: Relationship
Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.Collection: Relationship
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.Collection: Gratitude
Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.Collection: Giving
Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.Collection: Summer
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.Collection: Men
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.Collection: Dream
we are unique individuals with unique experiencesCollection: Unique
always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myselfCollection: Nice
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.Collection: Support
Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deservesCollection: Love You
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.Collection: Beach
I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.Collection: Love You
To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.Collection: Relationship
As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.Collection: Education
That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.Collection: Appreciate
Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.Collection: Heart
Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.Collection: Drawing