David Whyte Quotes

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

A relationship is based on communication.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.

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

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

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

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

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.