Closeness Quotes

• Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Silence, Listening

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Feet, Firmness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.140, Penguin UK

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

  Judith Viorst

  Distance, Self, Intimacy

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone is close by, you just know it.

  James Dashner

  Knows

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.3, Delacorte Press

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• when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Believe, Abuse

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Space, Giving, Tragedy

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• True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

  Dalai Lama

  True Friend, Share, Fortune

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2000). “The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

  Babette Deutsch

  Reality, Poetry, Important

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• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 16, 2016

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• If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

  Pope Francis

  Love You, Missing, Grace

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• There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

  Willie Stargell

  Family, Smile, Relatives And Friends

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• The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

  Peter Brook

  Distance, Reality, Myth

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• Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

  Christopher Paolini

  Family, Aliens, Eldest

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• We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

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• Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

  Cathy Kelly

  Hurt, Mean, People

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• Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

  Henri Nouwen

  Silence, Distance Friendship, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

  Sonny Rollins

  Atmosphere, Clubs, Jazz

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• Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Missing, Worst

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• I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Perspective, Sometimes

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.295, Vintage

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• You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Sarcasm

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

  Robert Audi

  Distance, Teaching, Emotional

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• 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

  Distance, New Horizons, Way

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.24, Image

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  Ellen Goodman

  Mother, Distance, Father

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Sadness, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature”, p.144, 谷月社

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