Intimacy Quotes

528 Intimacy quotes by 403 unique authors

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. — Gautama Buddha
Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation,… — Michael Parfit
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of… — Plato
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity… — Neil T Anderson
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the… — Steven James
My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from… — Barack Obama
We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality. — Unknown Author
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that… — Doc Watson
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our… — Carl Rogers
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a… — Sharon Salzberg
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect… — Derek Bailey
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little… — Jane Hirshfield
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.Â Sanctity is intimacy with God;… — Pope John Paul II
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes,… — Camille Paglia
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation… — Ted Olson
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the… — Andrew Solomon
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web… — Henry Green
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner
Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can… — William Sloane Coffin

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