Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

People change and forget to tell each other.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

We have fought and cried. But I think, over time, one falls, learns, grows, and moves on. Shah Rukh and I have had our share of highs and lows.

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

My debut single "Pointless Relationship" is about a girl's view of where the relationship is going with her partner and it sounds like a negative term. But the song is more of an empowering song from a woman's perspective! It's the life of them together and it's just never going to go where it should go, and so she's saying to him this is a pointless relationship.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth.

I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.