Thomas Merton Quotes

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 want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

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.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I've had girls that kissed me on the cheek. People get so pumped, and so excited, they don't see you as a person. Which is fair. Sometimes, I don't see people as people. But at the end of the day, you can't put your hands on me unless I hug you first.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

My missus knows to leave me alone.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

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.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.