Gary Chapman Quotes

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony.

I am not averse to the idea of being in a relationship. In fact, I think everything in this world can be solved through love.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

To speak of love is to make love.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.