Joyce Brothers Quotes

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

I do want love. Genuine love.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.