The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot,… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are… — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
“Participants experience a 'social intimacy' and a basic 'trust' in the inclusiveness and good intentions of the other people present. Hygge cannot… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“A soulmate is an intimate and sacred keeper of your secrets, fears, vulnerabilities and love with a bond where trust breathes safety… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food?… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
“You are worthy! Let those words sink deep into your heart. You are worthy. Life can get overwhelming for us, as our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity.… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
When someone who's been homeless and actually had to take meals on the handout or steal purses on the backs of park… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey. — Amanda Marshall Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Let me have you in the most intimate of ways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man… — Rachel L. Demeter Copy Share Image
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not only limited to the physical definition. The most beautiful of intimate moments is when you and your partner understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece. — Doris Salcedo Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to let go. Ever. Maybe it was too soon. Maybe it was too intimate. Maybe it was too perfect.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
“As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.” — Jenn Granneman Copy Share Image