Lucy Davis Quotes

I feel like I'm in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they're putting in me.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

I take friendship very seriously.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

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

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.