George Washington Carver Quotes

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

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

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 believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

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

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

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

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

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

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

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

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.