Jacque Fresco Quotes

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

If you want to improve a relationship, it's not that you demand your spouse to change. You have to ask, 'Where did I fail in this relationship?'

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I think it helped me like myself more, playing Hedwig.

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

It's easy to forget who you are.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the right one, and what I've been taught is you really gotta figure out who you are first before you can really give yourself to someone else.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.