“Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of… — Anne Katherine Copy Share Image
People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world… — Pamela Taeuffer Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Sex is a sacred act which sadly, over the past few decades, has been demeaned and demoralized until it means almost nothing… — Karen Amanda Hooper Copy Share Image
“I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesnt… — Josh Riebock Copy Share Image
“A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you'll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy.… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really… — Amy Rachel Peterson Copy Share Image
We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“It hadn’t occurred in the physical realm, that much was true. His hand had not touched her hand. But... his mind had… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The natural byproduct of intimacy with Jesus is that He begins to live through you and destroy the works of the devil… — Ryan Wyatt Copy Share Image
Attraction without intimacy define the type of love we feel for our best friends. We share secrets and personal experiences with them,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that… — Flip Wilson Copy Share Image
A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal.… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
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