Paul Washer Quotes

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.

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!'

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 think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

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.

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.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.