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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. -- Robert Sternberg
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. -- Keith Miller
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. -- Rollo May
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. -- Alain de Botton
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. -- Diana Krall
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. -- Charles Baudelaire
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. -- Henri Nouwen
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. -- William Hazlitt
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen -- Doc Watson
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. -- Deborah Tannen
Intimacy means "into me see"! -- Robert Mandel
Intimacy is a difficult art ... -- Virginia Woolf
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. -- Rollo May
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult. -- Murasaki Shikibu
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy -- Richard Bach
Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it. -- Lillian B. Rubin
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. -- Deepak Chopra
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. -- Max Anders
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. -- Amy Bloom
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! -- Tom Robbins
Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are. -- Cameron Diaz
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. -- Hortense Calisher
Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. -- Hill Harper
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. -- Bill Johnson
Intimacy with GOD is most exhilarating, most amazing, most exciting and most rewarding of all. -- TemitOpe Ibrahim
Seeking Intimacy with God and desiring Fellowship with Him, will make our calling in Christ sure. -- Santosh Thankachan
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. -- Martha Beck
Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers. -- Toni Morrison
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick. -- Joshua Harris
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work. -- Jim Goldberg
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. -- Rollo May
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. -- Maggie Scarf
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting. -- Beth Moore
Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day. -- Marty Becker
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. -- Colin Trevorrow
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation! -- Tim Hughes
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD. -- Scott Aukerman
The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire. -- Frank Warren
Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up. -- Amanda Seyfried
Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work. -- Max de Pree
Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. -- John Adams
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm. -- Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me. -- Danielle Cormack
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. -- Antonin Scalia
Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special. -- Terry Teachout
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff. -- Dossie Easton
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen. -- Doc Watson
If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you. -- Rajneesh
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. -- Eric Berne
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. -- Henri Nouwen
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? -- Phil Donahue
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.... -- James Dickey
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. -- Armand Assante
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. -- Hedy Lamarr
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. -- Queen Victoria
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. -- Charles Stanley
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. -- Joyce Brothers
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. -- Marianne Williamson
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. -- Dean Ornish
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. -- Anais Nin
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. -- Errol Morris
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment. -- Brene Brown
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. -- Bertrand Russell
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. -- George Eliot
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. -- Havelock Ellis
I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. -- Alanis Morissette
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy. -- Harry A. Blackmun
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. -- David Walliams
Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them. -- Margot Anand
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. -- Lord Chesterfield
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. -- Henry Laurens
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am. -- Bill Hybels
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. -- Eleanor Clift
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. -- George Halas
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. -- Henri Nouwen
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. -- Gordon Neufeld
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. -- Jill Soloway
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. -- Peter Zumthor
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. -- Charles Stanley
Marriage is sacred intimacy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All fruitfulness flows from intimacy. -- Heidi Baker
Pulse proximity is not intimacy. -- Stefan Molyneux
Secrets are the currency of intimacy -- Frank Warren
Deference and intimacy live far apart. -- Moliere
I love intimacy, always, of performing. -- Julio Iglesias
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. -- Junot Diaz
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. -- Dogen
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True intimacy with God always brings humility. -- Beth Moore
You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see. -- Martin de Maat
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. -- Tatiana Maslany
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy -- Sherry Turkle
The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it. -- Publilius Syrus
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. -- Danielle Steel
Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy. -- James Mercer
instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion. -- May Sarton
Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard. -- Hannah Simone
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. -- Robert Morgan
I try to stay away from forced intimacy. -- Paz de la Huerta
I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy. -- Erica Jong
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. -- Amy Bloom
The truth within moves as intimacy of being. -- John de Ruiter
Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth. -- Sunday Adelaja
The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment. -- Joshua Harris
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence. -- Tommy Tenney
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. -- Matthew Perry
Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality. -- Timothy Keller
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. -- Graydon Carter
Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God]. -- Beth Moore
Keeping your heart open provides the opportunity for greater intimacy. -- Sue Detweiler
The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness. -- Mason Cooley
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires. -- Dallas Willard
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship. -- J.D. Greear
Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance. -- Donna Goddard

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