Seal Quotes

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

For me, there is only love and fear.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.