Pink Quotes

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

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.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

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

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.