Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author John Gray.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
John Gray is an American relationship counselor, lecturer and author. In 1969, he began a nine-year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career as an author and personal relationship counselor. In 1992 he published the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, which became a long-term best seller and formed the central theme of all his subsequent books and career activities. His books have sold millions of copies.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.