"We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view……" — Harriet Lerner
"We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview."
More Closeness Quotes
- I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a… — Norman McLaren
- Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our… — Donald L. Staheli
- In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,… — Mario Vargas Llosa
- We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and… — Pope John Paul II
- Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in… — Daniel Mendelsohn
- We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few… — Deepak Chopra
- It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to… — Ansel Adams
- Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your… — Orson Scott Card
- Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment. — Peter Breggin
- The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance. — Robert Audi