I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real. Tracy McMillan More Quotes by Tracy McMillan More Quotes From Tracy McMillan When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need. Tracy McMillan patience life people Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going Tracy McMillan loving-myself way Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men. Tracy McMillan self-esteem men boys I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck. Tracy McMillan opportunity attitude long Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity. Tracy McMillan maturity caring people All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized. Tracy McMillan love-life valentine light People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside. Tracy McMillan feels people way I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves. Tracy McMillan crazy persons thinking Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him. Tracy McMillan guy self want Women blame men for their own singlehood. Tracy McMillan blame-me blame men Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect. Tracy McMillan love-relationship has-beens perfect I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships. Tracy McMillan masculine-and-feminine order thinking Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last. Tracy McMillan riding fun people Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me. Tracy McMillan me you women relationship I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart. Tracy McMillan you heart love life Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships. Tracy McMillan great you work school I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day. Tracy McMillan talk day living women Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not. Tracy McMillan yourself good me you For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent. Tracy McMillan you age life past You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way. Tracy McMillan you santa universe way
