Sonya Deville Quotes

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

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

I want romance; I want people to be happy in their relationships.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

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

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

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

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

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

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.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn't fully right.

Intimacy is healing.

The good life is built with good relationships.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I haven't had many relationships.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

You can't go wrong with love.