Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

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

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Love is a credulous thing.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.