Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has… — Chana Levitan Copy Share Image
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy. — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost… — Gary LeVox Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“I love being aroused. I love how that feeling overcomes me, as I look at a man’s erect cock, as I feel… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. Every night seemed like the last night because we would all… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all… — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“But she spoke as though it were a matter of weeks rather than of years; as though, too, before our parting we… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Other than intimacy with a truly loved one is there any better feeling than knowing that you're so close or better still,… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
Strong is the heart of peace - Gentle are the hands of love. ~Jordan Blake Michiels~ — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
“Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.” — Bonnie Eaker Weil Copy Share Image
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“The intimate space of your personal life should be reserved for amazing, beautiful, radiant souls — good, wholesome and loving people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I like the way you touch me." "I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?” — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
