Thomas Kinkade Quotes

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

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

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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.

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

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

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.