Intimacy Quotes - Page 18

• We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

  Robert Reich

  Love, Wise, Growing Up

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• Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean, Men, Two

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• I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night.

  Henry James

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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• When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

  Bill Engvall

  Feelings, Looks, World

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• A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Sexy, Cat, Want

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• I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Snakes, Phobia

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too much of an intimacy between us, but actually the real thing is, if there's a proper intimacy between you... I find it really compelling and exciting - it's quite good foreplay.

  Rankin

  Girlfriend, Real, Too Much

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• The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

  Andrew Solomon

  Language, Absence

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• It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, Impulse

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• So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Eyeglasses, Judging

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

  Thomas Paine

  Infancy, Lasting, Misfortunes

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.37, Penguin

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• When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Writing, Hard Times

  "The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters". Interview with Faith Soloway, therumpus.net. October 25, 2010.

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• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  David Deida

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.

  Claudia Rankine

  Crazy, Law, Car

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.

  Sue Tompkins

  Important, Trying, Joining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.

  Karen Mason

  Space, Challenges, Pieces

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Commitment, Eye

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

  Tara Brach

  Strategy, Packages, Desirable

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.

  Tara Brach

  New Relationship, Caring, Judging

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy around Jesus. We too need these circles of intimacy, but it's a discipline.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Circles, Discipline

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.

  Michael Che

  Sweet, Fun, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Reading, Mind, Mystery

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music.

  Neal Barnard

  Drug, Important, Cocaine

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

  Sherry Turkle

  People, Trying, Trouble

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of secrecy and revelation, you need to understand the larger culture in which the couple lives and also the culture of the couple itself. What does intimacy mean to them? Where does the couple draw the line between togetherness and separateness? That's what informs you. You always ask, "What would happen if I tell? What would happen if I don't tell?" Sometimes, the partner doesn't want to know.

  Esther Perel

  Couple, Mean, Love Is

  Source: wbur.org

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