Boundaries Quote by Elizabeth Ferrars

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

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared…

— Dossie Easton

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

— Amy Bloom

Intimacy, in my opinion, is when you are vulnerable with someone, you share secrets, are open to love, and you take care of their…

— Kenya Moore

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a…

— Henri Nouwen

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

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

True intimacy is the opening of one soul to another. No gift on earth could compare with it, for it touches us more profoundly…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling…

— Georges Bataille

“Unless they have the opportunity to experience therapy or another transformational love relationship, they may not develop much capacity for intimacy.”

— Laura Markham

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

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

— Erica Jong