Shakti Gawain Quotes

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

I'm a very protective person and I'm very, I don't want to say shy, but I tend to fall for people once I've been around them for a minute because I trust them and I'm willing to let them into my world a little more, so I can definitely say I've fallen for a friend.

We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

I believe love opens people up.

So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.