Intimacy Quotes

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  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

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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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

  Love, Work, Passion

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• 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

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Relationship, Who I Am, Proud

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Wisdom, Understanding

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• The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Levels

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• Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

  Alain de Botton

  Relationship, Capacity, Findings

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

  Marianne Williamson

  Honesty, Commitment, Keys

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• The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Life, Loneliness

  "An Emotional Survival Guide to Burning Man" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• 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

  Phones, Might, Next

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• At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

  Alice Fulton

  Beginners, Imitation

  Alice Fulton, “About Face”

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• Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

  Richard Bach

  Marriage, Land, Two

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• So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Mean

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Self Actualization, Knows

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Heart, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  Queen Victoria

  Artist, Seductive, Littles

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• The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

  James Dickey

  Sex, Feelings, Complicity

  James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.95, LSU Press

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• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  Garry Shandling

  Friendship, Love You, Funny Friend

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• 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

  Relationship, Swings, Oneness

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• They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Reading, I Hate You, Wedding Speech

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Greatness, Compassion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

  Amy Bloom

  True Intimacy

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• There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

  Charley Pride

  Giving, Special, Theater

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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