Shannon Lee Quotes

It is very important to have deep friendships of the opposite sex to learn so much about yourself and what you need as a human.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.