Common Quote by Deena Metzger

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

— Harriet Lerner

Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

— Cameron Diaz

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

— Amy Bloom

“In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward…

— Anne Katherine

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

— Timothy Morton

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

— Miranda Otto

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status,…

— Robert Grudin

“The desire of intimacy is the desire to share one's innermost self with another”

— Dan McAdams

The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the…

— Marianne Williamson

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the…

— Max De Pree