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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy,… — Mark Driscoll 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
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
“Once you have recognized and admitted to yourself that there is a problem and have started to gain some understanding of the… — Paldrom Collins 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
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
“I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred… — Francesca Zappia 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
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
“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
“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
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more.… — Graham Nash 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
“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
“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
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
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
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended,… — Carl Rogers 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
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
I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
“Reaching up, he began using the exercise bar to do chin-ups. The repetitive act helped focus his mind as it multitasked. One… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
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