Compromise Quote by Max Barry

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins…

— Phyllis McGinley

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from…

— Sherry Turkle

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

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

— James Mercer

“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish…

— David Porush

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from…

— Rajneesh

Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a…

— Anonymous

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

— Rollo May

People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

— Lillian B. Rubin