Ethan Zohn Quotes

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

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

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Yelling between people in love is normal.

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.

When you can have a relationship that's like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.

There's no point in being a relationship if the two of you don't support one another.

I've never had trouble talking and expressing my feelings.

You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered.

It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.” “You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said. “I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.” “Then give your words to Bran too.

If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.