Intimacy Quotes - Page 26

• Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

  Rick Warren

  Pathways, Authenticity, Pretentiousness

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• This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Stories, Trading

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• Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Lying, Home

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• I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Broken, Skins

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• 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 few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.

  Cesar Millan

  Years, Goal, Wife

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• Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Mountain Ranges, Sight

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

  Tommy Tenney

  Influence, Access

  Tommy Tenney (2004). “Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence”, p.53, Baker Books

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• I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow people to make their own choices.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  Timothy Morton

  Our World, Earth, Faces

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• I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

  Natalie Portman

  Emotional, Thinking, Sides

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

  Hedi Slimane

  Emotion, Distraction, Reduction

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

  Kevin Hart

  Religious, Writing, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Pulse, Proximity

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• Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

  Andrew Solomon

  Running, Heart, People

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “A Stone Boat: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving

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• Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, Waiting

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• ... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Lying, Two, People

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• Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Distance, Dating, Erotic

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

  James Mercer

  Thinking, Suffering, Trying

  "Catching Up With the Shins’ James Mercer". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. March 12, 2012.

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• For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Romantic Love, Space

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  Jason Epstein

  Distance, Editors, Patient

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• Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

  Peter Ustinov

  Flower, Epic, Artist

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• I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

  David Hare

  Art, Good Relationship, Purpose

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Blow, People, Stopping

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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