Intimate Relationships Quotes - Page 4

• I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Clothes, May, Closets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

  John Friend

  Spiritual, Practice, Engaging

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• It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

  John Friend

  Spiritual, Powerful, Soul

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• Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are able to fully know this divine love within ourselves. These close relationships provide us not only with the experience of the highest joy and love in life, but also offer the opportunity for profound self-awareness, because each relationship mirrors both our bright attributes and our shadow sides.

  John Friend

  Heart, Opportunity, Self

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• I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

  Tony Robbins

  Children, Love You, Thinking

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Knowing, Sacred, Problem

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you might want your partner not just to care about you or understand you but to feel what you feel.

  Paul Bloom

  Thinking, Play, Empathy

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.

  C.E. Morgan

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

  Reed Krakoff

  Way, Stores, Customers

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.

  Mickey Sumner

  Sweet, Successful, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Baby, Drama, Party

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.10, Karnac Books

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• The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, Loneliness, Self

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• A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it.
  This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances.
  To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.

  Rob Brezsny

  Psychics, Practice, Indulge In

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• We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Opportunity, Wish, Principles

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Evil

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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• You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

  T. D. Jakes

  Circles, People, Looks

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• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Gay, Cycling, Identity Politics

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• One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.

  Wes Nisker

  Running, Names, Giving

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

  Wayne Mack

  Godly, People, Accountability

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• What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

  Paul Washer

  Hate, Giving, Intimate Relationship With God

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• Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

  Paul Krassner

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

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• People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.

  E. L. James

  Girlfriend, Sex, Husband

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In order to be able to make and keep commitments... to enduring, intimate relationships... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it.

  Danny Silk

  Powerful, Commitment, Responsibility

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• It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

  Rudolf Steiner

  Home, Men, Other Worlds

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• This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Caring, Tyrants

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