Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

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

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.

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

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.

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

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

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.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

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

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

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.