Nora Roberts Quotes

I think that when somebody, when people really have a connection with each other, they change each other. You become a different person, hopefully a better person, because of it.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

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.

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

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.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

I had to experience many situations and emotions to develop, and I'm still striving to become the kind of competitor I want to be.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.

I think I've just matured over the years.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

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.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.