Joe Gebbia Quotes

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

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Intimacy is healing.

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

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

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

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Trust is even more important than love.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

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

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.