Greg Behrendt Quotes

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. That's just a phase I've been in lately. I don't think this should be how i proceed in life. It's important to be self-aware about these things because you don't want to end up with that guy.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

Sometimes you give a person everything. You give them all of you. You give them everything you got, and they just don't want it, or that ain't your match. So now the next person, maybe that's really something special, but you not even acting like yourself.