Joyce Brothers Quotes

• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

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• 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.

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

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• For men to be virgins, we think it’s negative. We think that there’s something wrong with them.

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• Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.

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• 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 reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

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

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• 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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• No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.

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

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• 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 man who they think they’ll love forever.

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• There is such a thing as bad publicity.

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• Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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• 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.

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  Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

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• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

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• My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.

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• 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.

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• If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

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• The best proof of love is trust.

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Birth:	20th October, 1927
Death:	13th May, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist, Writer

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