Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

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

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

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

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

He shook his head. “No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do.” I waited for more. “That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?” Those green eyes held me. “I don't think I need to.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.