I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos.… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“You tend a wound nearly as well as you dance." Her blue-gray gaze flicked up to his, wide with surprise. "I wasn't… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a… — Li Ching-Yuen Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source… — Tilden Edwards Copy Share Image
I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry… — Eunice Tietjens Copy Share Image
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor.… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I think the most special thing about the chemistry is the intimate understanding of how to make each other laugh. At the… — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
…at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on… — Bernadette Roberts 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
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