Closeness Quote by Harriet Lerner

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

— Moliere

“I find intimacy within and between all of us that is not sentimental or romantic. From one point of view this intimacy can be…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's…

— Deena Metzger

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

— Amy Bloom

“Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have…

— Heather O'Neill

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

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

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

— Judith Viorst

I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.

— Mae Martin

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

I think when you're looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe