Charlotte Kasl Quotes

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

I think chemistry is just about two people being comfortable with one another.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.