Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
“Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.” — Agu Jaachynma N E Copy Share Image
“You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thing you fear the most in your relationship turns out to be the thing that brings you and your partner… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
“To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
As she stood down below him on the street,it seemed impossible that she'd connected with him as she had,but then,the phone was… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“When a man is deeply involved with his children it is harder for him to leave, and is it harder for a… — Kate Figes Copy Share Image
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“You know what’s so funny and sad about us human beings? . . . We are constantly torn between the all-consuming desire… — Earlene Fowler Copy Share Image
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
“When boundaries are not established in the beginning of a marriage, or when they break down, marriages break down as well. Or… — Henry Cloud and John Townsend Copy Share Image
“Deacon flushed and smiled. "I guess you're right. I just want to feel, like...used. I want you to fuck me like I'm...like… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy. — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable.” — NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM Copy Share Image
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can… — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
“He was claiming her, marking her with his touch, but she didn’t feel possessed so much as she felt protected. Cherished. Wanted.… — Ruthie Knox Copy Share Image
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
