Warren Farrell Quotes

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

Touch is incredibly important as part of the human experience. Our ancestors relied on human touch to form and strengthen bonds with each other. Touch can accelerate a feeling of connection and releases hormones in our body that engender trust and build connection.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

Making music with people is a very intimate process.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

Sometimes you have chemistry with people that is undeniable, and it just works, and sometimes you have matches with someone you think you are going to have good chemistry with, and it just doesn't turn out that way.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.