You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.