Madonna Ciccone Quotes

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

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

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

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.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

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.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

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.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.