David Levithan Quotes

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

You cannot love without intuition.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

Love does not analyze its object.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I've done a reasonable job with feelings. And I'm convinced that it is feelings - and feelings alone - that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of its myriad forms.

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even one's own parents: if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation?

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.