Joyce Brothers Quotes

Maybe Listening, not imitating, is the sincerest form of flattery.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

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

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

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

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. When you dare to be vulnerable.

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

While parents are naturally in a leadership role, strong families strive to share decision-making. They resolve differences by respecting other viewpoints and accepting compromise solutions. One family decided to spend money on a son's music lessons rather than replace worn carpeting. The compromise was to pitch in and clean the carpet. In another family, everyone but the youngest daughter loved to ski. They rented a vacation condo with plenty of activities for the daughter, and the skiers accepted an hour's drive to the slopes.

The secret of having it all is loving it all.

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

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

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