Angel Olsen Quotes

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

I put a lot of effort into not upsetting people and trying to do things the right way, so I feel I can reserve the right to complain when I feel let down by others.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.