Harville Hendrix Quotes

#1. I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

Jay McInerney

#2. Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

Harville Hendrix

#3. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.

Harville Hendrix

#5. When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

Blake Griffin

#6. The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

Rachel Maddow

#7. Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

Harville Hendrix

#8. Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

Harville Hendrix

#9. Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

Harville Hendrix

#10. We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Harville Hendrix

#11. My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of sand and tumbleweed.

Craig Silvey

#12. The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

#13. Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

Harville Hendrix

#14. He has a heart, somewhere, underneath everything else. I know, I saw it once.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.

Bo Jackson

#16. If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

Jeff Bezos

#17. The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step ...

Harville Hendrix

#18. Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

Harville Hendrix

#19. Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

#20. His tears and his spontaneous laughter are teachings within the teaching, reminding us of the incarnate dimension of wisdom.

Dalai Lama XIV

#21. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix

#22. We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

Harville Hendrix

#23. The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

Sally Potter