Joyce Brothers Quotes

The best proof of love is trust

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Success is state of mind.If you want success start thinking of yourself as a success

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully.

In strong families, positive strokes out-number negative broadsides by a wide margin. Members regularly express appreciation: "Thanks for fixing the drainpipe." "You look so nice in that dress." "The dinner was great." Criticism is offered gently. After all, strong families figure, if we can be kind to strangers, why not to one another?

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, "making it", or success.

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.