Fear Quote by Lillian B. Rubin Download Open image “Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.” — Lillian B. Rubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Hunger Intimacy Romance
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thing you fear the most in your relationship turns out to be the thing that brings you and your partner to a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection, and dream of perfection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest impacts on intimacy is fear. Fears surrounding intimacy can result in a push-pull dynamic because of differing attachment needs between… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
