I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
“spirituality. In healthy intimate relationships we do not seek more than 25 percent of our nurturance from a partner; we learn to… — David Richo Copy Share Image
'Cake' is a simple, almost traditional and relatable story, that highlights family values and intimate relationship dynamics within a family. — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
Sustained fidelity in a long-term intimate relationship is not only impressive, it creates a healthy foundation for everything else you do. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When you keep your most intimate relationship in the public eye and that too in a most vulnerable state, then your protective… — Rubina Dilaik Copy Share Image
“I believe you have to protect your relationship with God more than any other, Charlotte. Whether you believe in God or not,… — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
“The more deeply we dive, the less we mind upsetting waves, finding within intimate relationship an increasingly compelling invitation to seek and… — Robert Augustus Masters Copy Share Image
But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community —… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Fear in intimate relationships operates on several levels. On one level there are the survival fears—fear of making it financially on your… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“...lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“New evidence (2002) indicates that reparative adult experiences enable those with attachment traumas to increase their ability to cope with stress and… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
“As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace.… — Shea Darian Copy Share Image
“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“SHAME AS THE CORE AND FUEL OF ALL ADDICTION Neurotic shame is the root and fuel of all compulsive/addictive behaviors. My general… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships.… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“working on key emotional issues at their source, lays the groundwork for more solid intimate relationships in the present or future.” — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like… — Michaela Watkins Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not entirely physical. In fact, it can have no physical interaction at all. For an intimate relationship to take place,… — U Copy Share Image
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him.… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image