Gary Zukav Quotes

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

You learn to love by loving.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

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

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.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

I want to be better at staying connected.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

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.