Intimate Relationships Quotes

• Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

  Harriet Lerner

  Love, Relationship, Success

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• Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Intimate Relationship With God, Dare, Intimate

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, Harper Collins

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• The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Giving, Getting Back Together

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Money, Loneliness

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• Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Family, Broken Heart

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Revolutionary War

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

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  Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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• An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

  Harriet Lerner

  Party, Sacrifice, Self

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

  David Richo

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  David Richo (2008). “When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

  Gary Chapman

  Wish, Desire, Needs

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.31, Moody Publishers

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• Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Ideas

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• In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from heartbreak that she's then being closed off and cynical.

  Karla Souza

  Hurt, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• There are 3 levels of compatibility in intimate relationships that connect the most subtle realm of spirit to the most outer, dense form of body. There must be alignment in heart, through life view and spiritual intention; mind, through clear, open communication; and body, through physical chemistry. Compatibility on all 3 levels of heart, mind, and body is the ultimate love relationship, which everyone is seeking!

  John Friend

  Spiritual, Communication, Heart

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• Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.

  John Friend

  Fundamentals, Chemistry, Intimate

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• Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Real, Joy

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• Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

  Howard W. Hunter

  Marriage, Husband, Guiding Principles

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• We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

  Henry Blackaby

  Jesus, Father, Ifs

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• I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

  Gina Barreca

  Book, Reading, Invitations

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• Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

  Walter Benjamin

  Alive, Ownership, Objects

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Marriage, Being Yourself, Intimate

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• It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Important, Looks, World

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• I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dolphins, Intimate

  "Morgan Freeman On Set Interview DOLPHIN TALE". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. September 8, 2011.

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• It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Joy, Scripture

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.34, Discovery House

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• The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love
  and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

  David Deida

  Trying, Feminine, Deeper

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