Gary Chapman Quotes

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

I prefer face-to-face conversation as opposed to texting. You need to go out of your way to spend good time with one another; you need to have a date night. Whether you have kids or a career or whatever, for a relationship to thrive, it's about making time for each other.

Nothing trumps good conversation.

I love being able to connect with my friends and I want them to feel as close to me as possible.

When I am linked with close friends, it affects my friendship with them, and that's upsetting.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that's when you really develop a relationship.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

You don't build a bond without being present.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.