Nora Ephron Quotes

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the right one, and what I've been taught is you really gotta figure out who you are first before you can really give yourself to someone else.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.