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title: "Famous Intimacy Proverbs"
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> [The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/the-reason-for-my-painting-large-canvases-is-that-i-want-to-be-2/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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> [The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-bickle/the-enemy-works-overtime-to-keep-us-in-shame-he-knows-if-he-can-keep/)

[Mike Bickle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-bickle/)

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> [Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/communication-leads-to-community-that-is-to-understanding-intimacy-3/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [“We talk of things close to our hearts Things that no one sees, no one knows That shatter us into pieces and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelleen-goerlitz/we-talk-of-things-close-to-our-hearts-things-that-no-one-sees-no-one/)

[Kelleen Goerlitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelleen-goerlitz/)

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> [Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hill-harper/intimacy-can-be-about-holding-someone-s-hand-it-could-be-about/)

[Hill Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hill-harper/)

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> [Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-stone/greed-stains-our-culture-soaks-our-sensibilities-and-has-replaced/)

[Jennifer Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-stone/)

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> [“Shout out for Joy! Don't scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agu-jaachynma-n-e-3/shout-out-for-joy-don-t-scream-out-in-fear-for-victors-shout-and/)

[Agu Jaachynma N E](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agu-jaachynma-n-e-3/)

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> [“It is very important to pray and work more during your life's stage of sensation and experience. Intimacy well-handed is power and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anyaele-sam-chiyson/it-is-very-important-to-pray-and-work-more-during-your-life-s-stage/)

[Anyaele Sam Chiyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anyaele-sam-chiyson/)

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> [Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-epstein/editors-and-their-authors-seldom-form-deep-friendships-for-the-same/)

[Jason Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-epstein/)

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> [After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-friday/after-sex-men-fear-too-much-intimacy-they-want-to-separate-again/)

[Nancy Friday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-friday/)

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> [“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anyaele-sam-chiyson/anyaele-sam-chiyson-leadership-law-of-effectual-change-good-leaders/)

[Anyaele Sam Chiyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anyaele-sam-chiyson/)

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> [“We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnarch/we-tell-ourselves-that-intimacy-and-marriage-takes-two-people-who-are/)

[David Schnarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnarch/)

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> [Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-suzanne-miller/dating-is-a-social-brain-teaser-as-it-requires-constantly-changing/)

[Marilyn Suzanne Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-suzanne-miller/)

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> [These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherry-turkle/these-days-insecure-in-our-relationships-and-anxious-about-intimacy/)

[Sherry Turkle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherry-turkle/)

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> [But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-barkin/but-one-of-the-hardest-things-for-me-to-do-was-to-access-anger-i/)

[Ellen Barkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-barkin/)

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> [Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-friend/communication-within-the-couple-includes-the-open-clear-and-honest/)

[John Friend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-friend/)

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> [“Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who turned out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fiona-thrust/once-i-had-a-wild-fling-on-an-otherwise-boring-weekend-holiday-in/)

[Fiona Thrust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fiona-thrust/)

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> [“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/we-became-six-people-at-a-table-in-hampton-court-we-rose-and-walked/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/so-the-technology-that-does-the-least-alteration-of-nature-the-least/)

[Kirkpatrick Sale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirkpatrick-sale/)

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> [Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-harvey/knowing-her-we-will-know-that-we-are-her-divine-children-in-a/)

[Andrew Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-harvey/)

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> [Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-lewis-herman/many-abused-children-cling-to-the-hope-that-growing-up-will-bring/)

[Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-lewis-herman/)

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> [Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-salzberg/throughout-our-lives-we-long-to-love-ourselves-more-deeply-and-to/)

[Sharon Salzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-salzberg/)

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> [And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-unger/and-we-stood-like-that-the-joining-of-hands-is-highly-underrated-in/)

[Lisa Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-unger/)

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> [It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lizzy-caplan/it-s-refreshing-honestly-to-be-able-to-have-more-intellectual/)

[Lizzy Caplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lizzy-caplan/)

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> [Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-mason/small-spaces-allow-me-the-intimacy-but-make-it-more-of-a-challenge/)

[Karen Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-mason/)

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> [Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-beck/remember-intimacy-increases-with-honesty-share-less-to-keep-people/)

[Martha Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-beck/)

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> [Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-aukerman/intimacy-is-really-good-but-then-again-the-first-disk-on-the-record/)

[Scott Aukerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-aukerman/)

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> [Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intimacy-by-being-close-to-a-woman/)

[Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/)

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> [“When a man and woman are in love,some decisions and questions are answered in silence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitra-june/when-a-man-and-woman-are-in-love-some-decisions-and-questions-are/)

[Mitra June](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitra-june/)

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> [Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-harris/intimacy-without-commitment-like-icing-without-cake-can-be-sweet-but/)

[Joshua Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-harris/)

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> [That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francesco-clemente/that-moment-when-the-person-actually-dictates-the-way-i-do-the/)

[Francesco Clemente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francesco-clemente/)

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> [Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merle-shain/sex-deepens-love-and-love-deepens-sex-so-physical-intimacy-transforms/)

[Merle Shain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/merle-shain/)

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> [Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/those-unacquainted-with-the-world-take-pleasure-in-intimacy-with/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-journey/i-think-the-grotesque-can-inspire-intimacy-it-draws-us-in-as-well-as/)

[Anna Journey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-journey/)

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> [He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-james/he-liked-the-way-her-hand-felt-in-his-liked-the-simple-intimacy-of/)

[Julie James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-james/)

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> [“Unless they have the opportunity to experience therapy or another transformational love relationship, they may not develop much capacity for intimacy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-markham/unless-they-have-the-opportunity-to-experience-therapy-or-another/)

[Laura Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-markham/)

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> [Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-seyfried/intimacy-is-a-wonderful-thing-it-s-frustrating-that-growing-up-i/)

[Amanda Seyfried](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-seyfried/)

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> [“...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-geddes/we-use-intimacy-to-refer-to-the-physical-when-it-really-pertains-to/)

[John Geddes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-geddes/)

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> [“Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-dowrick/sound-crazy-it-may-well-be-but-it-is-precisely-in-relationships-of/)

[Stephanie Dowrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-dowrick/)

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> [For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lidia-bastianich/for-me-it-s-the-ultimate-to-be-able-to-nurture-and-nourish-someone/)

[Lidia Bastianich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lidia-bastianich/)

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## Top authors on Intimacy

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