Michael Ealy Quotes

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

It's really helpful when you do something you don't like. You won't make that mistake again. It's like dating a bunch of people who are wrong for you - you learn so much more about yourself that way.

Sometimes the worst things that you can say really teach you a lot about what you can learn.

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

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

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

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.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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

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

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

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

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.

It is very important to have deep friendships of the opposite sex to learn so much about yourself and what you need as a human.