Chris D'Elia Quotes

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

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.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

You learn to judge your friends for who they are.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

Everybody's got problems, and if you're gonna leave somebody because they have problems, you're gonna be alone for a long time.

When I was young, I couldn't process emotions well.