Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give.

It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

True friends stab you in the front.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.