27 Quotes by Terrence Real

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.

The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.

The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.

An addict needs shame like a man dying of thirst needs salt water.

The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what’s in front of you, and willing to move if what you’re doing isn’t working.

Love is not for the faint of heart.