Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the… — David Schnarch Copy Share Image
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom…… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again,… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Let's not pretend that I couldn't get you to do whatever I asked of you," he hissed, shoving harder against me when… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who turned out… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“A little pain was always involved in our intimacy; it heightened my passion. But I knew this was more than him just… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He looked at me, and then looked away quickly. But I could tell he was interested. I think my tight t-shirt might… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest impacts on intimacy is fear. Fears surrounding intimacy can result in a push-pull dynamic because of differing attachment… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I would never spend the night with someone else. Sleeping with someone suggested a kind of intimacy that having sex with them… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
“the sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in… — John Friend Copy Share Image
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“As women, our ability to multitask can be a blessing, but it becomes a huge liability when we take on too much… — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
“Sexual intimacy is a relationship, not just body parts coming together. The more comfortable you are with each other outside the bedroom;… — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image