Joyce Brothers
Family psychologist, author, and advice columnist; born Joyce Diane Bauer.
"We treat each other well" In strong families, positive strokes outnumber 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.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
The best proof of love is trust.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
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.
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.