Joyce Brothers

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

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 risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

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

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.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.