Gary Chapman Quotes

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.

My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

Men are but children of a larger growth.