Neil Clark Warren quotes

“Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

#Healthy Quotes #Our Relationship Quotes

“Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

#Commitment Quotes #Self Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

Source : Neil Clark Warren (1998). “Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life... and Loving It”, Focus on the Family Pub

#Order Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

#Lying Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

Source : Neil Clark Warren (1998). “The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets”, Focus on the Family Pub

#Listening Quotes #Gains Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

Source : Neil Clark Warren (1998). “The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets”, Focus on the Family Pub

#Skills Quotes #Decision Quotes #Willpower Quotes

“A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.”
-- Neil Clark Warren

#Bad Marriage Quotes

“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”

“The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

“The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.”

“The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.”

“God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.”

Source : Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.”

“Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.”