Harville Hendrix quotes

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. (Harville Hendrix)
Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.
Harville Hendrix
Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.
Harville Hendrix
Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.
Harville Hendrix
Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.
Harville Hendrix
Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.
Harville Hendrix
We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.
Harville Hendrix
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.
Harville Hendrix
When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.
Harville Hendrix
Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.
Harville Hendrix