Jane Fonda Quotes

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

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.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

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

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

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

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

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I'd rather be happy than right.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

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.

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.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

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

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.