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.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

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.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

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.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

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.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers