Laverne Cox Quotes

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

I don’t always agree with my wife, but we discuss the issue with love and respect. And then I say “yes.”

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

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

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.