Intimacy Quotes - Page 5

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

Put work into your dreams.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind of mate we attract, and it is through this mate that we are forever transformed – marriage as alchemy, but also as a mirror.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything for some kind of relationship somewhere with someone or something that would cause them to stagger in intimate rawness in friendship and love?

Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.

Ho provato molto seriamente a non pensare a lui. Ho sepolto il suo ricordo sotto i baci, le carezze e le voci di altri ragazzi ma ora tutto ciò che sento, provo e avverto sulla pelle è lui e il suo profumo di cannella.