Intimate Quotes - Page 39

• The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

  Michael Gurian

  Character, Independent, Boys

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

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• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  David Lanz

  Heart, Simple, Talking

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• Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mother, Son

  "“You’re supposed to marry the person you love, Mom”". www.salon.com. March 29, 2005.

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• Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

  Edwin Morris

  Feelings, President, Finals

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• Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Weed, Morning, Wall

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• A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Venues

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• I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?' Six words. 'I really care for you.' Five words. 'You matter to me' Four words. 'I love you.' Three words. 'Marry me.' Two words. Well, what's left? What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody?
  
  'Goodbye...'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Goodbye, Love You

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• When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery - that intimate relationship can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades, a sacred space where we can be ourselves, as we are ...This kind of unmasking - speaking our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our raw edges - is sacred activity, which allows two souls to meet and touch more deeply.

  John Welwood

  Struggle, Healing, Discovery

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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• The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Fruit, Praying

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.37, Ignatius Press

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• Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Giving, People

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• I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Humanity, Way

  Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

  Edward Albert

  Forgiveness, Simple, Understanding

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• The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.

  John Nunn

  Player, Water, Depth

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• Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Philosophy, War, Responsibility

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money.

  Richard Halverson

  Jesus, Real, Character

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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

  Intimate Relationships, Alive, Ownership

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

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• There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

  Maya Angelou

  Laughter, Inspirational Friendship, Found

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 28, 2011

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• Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Exercise, Drawing

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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, Intimate Relationships

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• No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Solitude, Secret, Degrees

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Art, Thinking, Soul

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  It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Body, Judgment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

  Mooji

  Heart, Joy, And Love

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• The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Doors, Profound

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1931.

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