Ann Aguirre Quotes

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

The right man applauds your potential, he doesn't stifle it.

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.

We can't control the heart and how it loves, and sometimes it's hard to let go, but you have to love yourself more and turn that no-good man loose.

I am so proud of my parents. Through all that, they're best friends; they still go to curries together. You don't have to be together to show an example of how a relationship can work.

If the guy does not treat you with love and respect, does not cease-and-desist with all the game playing, is not willing to share his world with you, then he is bad for you.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

I have to go through that arc with Dolores, and I didn't know what my arc was going to be. We found out episode by episode, and the more it went on, the more I felt a change in myself and allowed myself to be strong and to get angry and to access emotions that I don't normally, and I think a lot of women don't because we're kind of conditioned not to. It's freed me in a way, and it made me find a strength in myself.