Blake Lively Quotes

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

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

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

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

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

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

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

Everyone is different, and every relationship is different, and I think the rules can change, and feelings can change. It's not only about who you're with, but also where you are in your own life and your own process.

That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way.