empathetic relationship Quotes

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

You're a car, but most of all, what you are, what you've become, is a mate. And that's what makes a car special. That's what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.

Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

And during.. sometimes you wanna just be you with someone who knows all your secrets

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Let your best be for your friend.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.