Marco Pierre White Quotes

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

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.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

It's torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the right one, and what I've been taught is you really gotta figure out who you are first before you can really give yourself to someone else.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.