David Levithan Quotes

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.

Every couple goes through things.

When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.

What I think is key is everybody has to approach a relationship from a realistic standpoint. Everybody has stuff in the back of a trunk. The key is what kind of stuff can you deal with. There are some women who can deal with a relationship that I can't.

I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children. Otherwise, once you are an empty nester you might have nothing to talk about.

When I first started out in the band, I had so many walls up.

The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.

We grow up believing that love is like a fairytale that comes with all things good. What no one points out is how hard it is to live up to love or the tests along the way, small or big.

It's not easy to get a celebrity to attach themselves to something. You have to build a relationship.

Being the Bachelorette was an experience unlike anything else. I learned so much about myself during this process and if I were to step into this position again, I'm sure I would learn more.

I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.

The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on- what happens between teh beginning and end of the journey is your life.