Edith Wharton Quotes

I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird!

I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

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

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

I have to really enjoy someone's personality, not just their looks, before I'll kiss them.

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

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.

I wasn't a one-on-one type of guy.

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance - that I can see you, but I can't feel you.