“Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy. — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable.” — NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Terry Real, who has written extensively about men in relationships, describes a particular “unholy triangle” between “the powerful, irresponsible, and/or abusive father,… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Gabriel's eyes widened, blue and startled. He was stupidly beautiful, but Ray didn't really care about the regularity of his features. He… — N.J. Lysk Copy Share Image
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, you can… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“Once you achieve intimacy and connection, I predict that innovation, partnership, execution and success won't be far behind.” — Susan Scott Copy Share Image
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At times, we fall in love. And as we fall, we don't realise how deeply we're falling, until we've completely fallen.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“I love being aroused. I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“To a woman sexual intimacy is more a tool to get mentally close to her partner than merely a means to physical… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Yeah, I always get nervous with any type of intimacy because I never want to make someone uncomfortable. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
“God created a woman to be the keeper of her home. She sets the tone, and where her mind and heart goes,… — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
“Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.” — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.” — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
