Daphne Guinness Quotes

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

Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.

I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.

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

Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

I was too young to know how to love her.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

I'm 18 so I'm still young and I'm still learning. But I mean, relationships in general are hard.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step.

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

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 don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no baggage is your baggage. That means that you haven't thrown yourself into the mess of life.