The man with the well-manicured mustache has all the funnies and now, apparently all the answers when it comes to love. Steve Harvey, the self professed love guru to the everyday woman and author of the best-selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man uses his show as a platform to answer women’s most pressing issues and questions regarding men. So what, pray-tell, gives Steve the right to think he’s the expert on relationships? I mean, the king of comedy dresses in swagger-esque suits that fit like a glove, but does he fit into this love advisor role so easily? Especially since he’s on his third marriage, and has claims of abuse thrown at him from his ex-wife.

Regardless of those accusations, people shouldn’t be quite so quick to disregard Steve’s advice. Sure, some of it is a little left-field, but there are times when he’s been dead-on. Here are a few book quotes that prove we should lend Steve our ears and hear at least some of what he has to say.

Everyone has found themselves in a hurtful, disastrous or even simply confusing relationship a time or two in their lives. If you’re fortunate and wise enough, you learn from past relationship mistakes and grow from them. But for others, heart breaks happen over and over again because they repeat these mistakes, even when there are overpowering signs that their destructive behaviors are sabotaging any chances of a happy partnership. It’s bad relationship karma, and if you think the Love Gods have turned their backs on you, maybe it’s because you are attracting what you are…and life is mirroring what you are portraying or putting out into the Universe. If you’re not happy with the way your relationships have been going and you think the energy you’re giving isn’t giving you anything back, here are some ways to improve your relationship karma…and possibly get you the love you want.

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