Ileana D'Cruz Quotes

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

We have grown a lot as a couple. 'Nach Baliye' has made us understand each other in a way that now there is nothing missing in our relationship. We know each other fully.

I like men who straightforwardly express their emotions.

Trust is an issue that is very personal to each individual. You want to feel love and trust and all those things that bind relationships together, with your partner, your friends, your relatives, or any loved ones.

I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what has helped me keep going.

When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.

People think that I have figured it all out, at a young age, about love.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.