John Phillips Quotes

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

I think every relationship has its ups and downs. I think that's a part of whether you're married or whether you're in friendship or in business, right? They all have their ups and downs, and I think it's just a normal part of life.

Life with another person is always difficult.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

We're all negotiators.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.