Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Am I in love with you? Or am I in love with the feeling?

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life?

I don’t feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there’s something that I really did do. I believe I’m just ordinary. And I’d like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. But the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.