Christina Ricci Quotes

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

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

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

People change and forget to tell each other.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

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

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

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.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.