Tina Turner Quotes

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

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

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

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

We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.

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

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.