Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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

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 is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

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

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.