“Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.” — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
“To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that. — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
“The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.” — Ami Loper Copy Share Image
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“…I am certain of this one truth: men can achieve closeness without intimacy, while women can achieve intimacy without closeness. For example,… — Alan Eisenstock Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“One of the best ways to let Him inside you is to honestly share your feelings with Him. You need to be… — Linda Boone Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you are punching someone,… — D.K. Holm Copy Share Image
Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image