Intimacy & Desire Quotes

“If you can’t regulate your own emotional temperature, you’ll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what’s right, and earning your own self-respect.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.”
― David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in your relationship

“Partners co-evolve by struggling to solve the problems they co-create through their efforts to avoid growing.”
― Dr. David Schnarch, Intimacy & Desire: Awaken The Passion In Your Relationship