Natasha Trethewey Quotes

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.

There are many doors to the heart.

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

When you learn how to be really attentive, you learn the importance of patience and appreciating a woman. You're able to appreciate the softness of her skin and the look in her eyes. It's a connection.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

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

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.