Shakti Gawain Quotes

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better