C. S. Lewis Quotes

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

It's too easy to be myself with you.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I think the one thing about 'Total Divas' is that we all had to open up our lives. We all had to open up that book and show you every chapter we've been through. Then when you start comparing, you see we all have something in common. That's what made us all close.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between the artist and the person passing by. And it's important to include some vulnerability and use fears and rejections and various aspects from my own life so people look at my work as more than greeting card fodder.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.