Joyce Brothers Quotes

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.

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

The only people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything.

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

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.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

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

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

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.

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

Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

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

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

The best proof of love is trust.

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

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.

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.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don’t have any, it is everything.

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

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

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

Feeling gratitude isn’t born in us – it’s something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

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.

My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

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

There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.