Tamara Tunie Quotes

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

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

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

It's a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it's rare that you'll find two people who don't try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.

For me sometimes you have to accept that people can not always be what you want them to be.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

We must take our friends as they are.

If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.

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

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

I realize you can't please everyone.