John Muir Quotes

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it.

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

Friendship is communion.

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.