Joyce Brothers Quotes

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

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

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

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• The best proof of love is trust.

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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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• I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

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

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  Topics in Knowledge, Trust

  Tags in Intuition, Facts, Conscious

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

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Joyce Brothers (21)

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

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