Henry Cloud Quotes

Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'

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

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

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

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

You can never perfect a relationship, and you can never perfect yourself to be in a relationship. You're always going to be changing, and you hope it's for the better.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

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

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'

If you are going to believe in the fairy tale of 'Mr. Right,' then you need to keep everything in perspective. Know the things that make you happy. Know the things that enable and/or hinder your growth.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

Guys, fellas! You'll lose your wife trying to stop them from being the best they can.