Joyce Brothers Quotes

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• The best proof of love is trust.
• Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
• 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…
• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
• Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or…
• Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the…
• The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
• If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
• Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
• Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.
• As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
• I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at…
• I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
• Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
• Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that…
• Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
• The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

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