Sara Teasdale Quotes

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

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

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

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.

But how do you ever know that you know a person?

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.