Liv Ullmann Quotes

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.

How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

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

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

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

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.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

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

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.