Jessica Alba Quotes

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

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

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Free love never works.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

You can never perfect a relationship, and you can never perfect yourself to be in a relationship. You're always going to be changing, and you hope it's for the better.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?