Jurnee Smollett Quotes

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

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

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Typically, we get annoyed when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what would make him or her feel loved.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.

I have a motherly instinct and I'm always trying to give therapy.