Malik Yoba Quotes

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

You have to negotiate with people who don’t trust you and vica versa. You have to be very careful but you can’t be paralyzed.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.

When women are trying to keep a man, just make sure it's a man that you want to keep. You know, he might be cute and drives this type of vehicle and has a nice little bank account, but is he really somebody that you would want?

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

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.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

I'm guessing that ability to withstand peer pressure and adhere to one's values might translate to the kind of backbone necessary for a successful lifelong relationship.

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

I think live-in relationship works for a few people, and it doesn't for others. I have never done it, so I can't speak about the pros and cons. I don't know if that will work for me or not, but I am definitely not close to the idea. For an arrangement like that to succeed, one needs to have the right feeling for the right person.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

Women are better than man at valuing relationships and much better than men in terms of contributing towards a relationship.

For entrepreneurs, choosing your co-founders is like a professional marriage. You're going to go through tough times, and you need to remember that ideas can change, but business partners can't.

In any relationship, only if both partners bring in emotional, financial commitment and honesty in equal measure, can there be harmony.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

I believe equality in a relationship is very important, and for that, both partners should be equally capable to handle anything.