Takeoff Quotes

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

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

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.

I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

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.

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

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

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

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that.

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.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

What you want to do is put people in a position where they feel connected enough to you that they're willing to collaborate with you; they're willing to show you the things that they were scared to tell you about before.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.

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

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.