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Top 15 Harville Hendrix Quotes (2025 Update)

Harville Hendrix Quote: “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”

1. “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”

— Harville Hendrix

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Harville Hendrix Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in relationship?” Because you can’t always have both. You can’t cuddle up and relax with “being right” after a long day.”

3. “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in relationship?” Because you can’t always have both. You can’t cuddle up and relax with “being right” after a long day.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.”

4. “Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.”

5. “Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.”

6. “We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...”

7. “The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.”

8. “Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Harville Hendrix Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Harville Hendrix Quote: “All this may seem like a terrible tangle. But since partnership is designed to resurface feelings from childhood, it means that most of the upset that gets triggered in us during our relationship is from our past. Yes! About 90 percent of the frustrations your partner has with you are really about their issues from childhood. That means only 10 percent or so is about each of you right now. Doesn’t that make you feel better?”

11. “All this may seem like a terrible tangle. But since partnership is designed to resurface feelings from childhood, it means that most of the upset that gets triggered in us during our relationship is from our past. Yes! About 90 percent of the frustrations your partner has with you are really about their issues from childhood. That means only 10 percent or so is about each of you right now. Doesn’t that make you feel better?”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Dr. Hendrix, why do couples have such a hard time staying together?” I thought for a moment and then responded. “I don’t have the foggiest notion. That is a great question and I think I’ll spend the rest of my career trying to find out.”

12. “Dr. Hendrix, why do couples have such a hard time staying together?” I thought for a moment and then responded. “I don’t have the foggiest notion. That is a great question and I think I’ll spend the rest of my career trying to find out.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Harville Hendrix Quote: “Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.”

14. “Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world “trailing clouds of glory,” but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness.”

15. “In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world “trailing clouds of glory,” but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “He thought he was in love with a person, when in fact he was in love with an image projected upon that person. Cheryl was not a real person with needs and desires of her own; she was a resource for the satisfaction of his unconscious childhood longings. He was in love with the idea of wish fulfillment and – like Narcissus – with a reflected part of himself.”

16. “He thought he was in love with a person, when in fact he was in love with an image projected upon that person. Cheryl was not a real person with needs and desires of her own; she was a resource for the satisfaction of his unconscious childhood longings. He was in love with the idea of wish fulfillment and – like Narcissus – with a reflected part of himself.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “A man who attended a recent workshop said that “falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating.”

17. “A man who attended a recent workshop said that “falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “People believe that separation opens their eyes to their self-defeating behaviors and gives them an opportunity to resolve those problems with a new partner. But unless they under- stand the unconscious desires that motivated their dysfunctional behavior in the first relationship and learn how to satisfy those desires with the new partner, the second relationship is destined to run aground on the same submerged rocks.”

18. “People believe that separation opens their eyes to their self-defeating behaviors and gives them an opportunity to resolve those problems with a new partner. But unless they under- stand the unconscious desires that motivated their dysfunctional behavior in the first relationship and learn how to satisfy those desires with the new partner, the second relationship is destined to run aground on the same submerged rocks.”

— Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix Quote: “From our view, these scars are very active in adult intimate relationships and show up constantly when a partner turns away or shows a still face when the other is trying to engage.”

19. “From our view, these scars are very active in adult intimate relationships and show up constantly when a partner turns away or shows a still face when the other is trying to engage.”

— Harville Hendrix

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