Theodore Zeldin Quotes

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

A relationship is based on communication.

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.

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

Friendship requires great communication.

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

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

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.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.