Quote: Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. [John Gray]
Quote: Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. [John Gray]
Quote: A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood. [John Gray]
Quote: When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. [John Gray]
Quote: Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. [John Gray]
Quote: We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes. [John Gray]
Quote: The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. [John Gray]
Quote: All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner. [John Gray]
Quote: Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours
Fair Venus' train appear,
Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
And wake the purple year. [John Gray]
Quote: To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. [John Gray]
Quote: Our character is shaped as much by our failures as it is by our successes. [John Gray]
Quote: Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. [John Gray]
Quote: We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes. [John Gray]
Quote: always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself [John Gray]
Quote: Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind. [John Gray]
Quote: When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs. [John Gray]
Quote: To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves. [John Gray]
Quote: We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone. [John Gray]
Quote: To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well. [John Gray]
Quote: A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. [John Gray]
Quote: A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. [John Gray]
Quote: Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems. [John Gray]
Quote: When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. [John Gray]
Quote: Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach. [John Gray]
Quote: A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood [John Gray]