Amy Dickinson Quotes

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

There is true freedom in letting go.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.