“Always go for the one who touches your heart more than your body.”

“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.”

Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer

“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

“Holy, to me just one glance is holy
One touch of your heart to me that's holy…”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

“It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“Remember that your brain is no more developed by the thoughts your husband thinks than your body is nourished by the food your husband eats.”

Gertrude Breslau Hunt (1869–1952)