“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.”
— George Orwell
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me” - that’s intimacy.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
— Martin Scorsese (via arookieblog)
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“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
— Ram Dass (via davejwatson)
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
“No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.”
— Unknown
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
— Osho