Intimate Relationships Quotes - Page 2

• I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Falling In Love, Love Life, Soul

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• We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

  James Hollis

  Needs, Becoming, Individuation

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.99, Inner City Books

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• Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.

  Caroline Myss

  God, Hands, Path

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• The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Intimate, Our Relationship

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books

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• When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Echoes, People

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• But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Promise

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.61, Random House

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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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• Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.

  Harville Hendrix

  People, Feelings, Connections

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• Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

  Nancy Mitford

  Marriage, Children, Sitting

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.126, Vintage

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• If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.

  Connie Zweig

  Views, Opposites, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

  Kevin James

  Nervous, Excited, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

  Adam Lambert

  Beautiful, Crush, Beautiful Women

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• What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Religious, Real, Law

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• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  J. C. Watts

  Christian, Prayer, Journey

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, Feminist, Effort

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.34, Routledge

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Practice

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Divorce, Skills, People

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

  Haruki Murakami

  Meals, Different, Joints

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.31, Random House

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• Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Meaningful, Dark, Self

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• But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.

  Jon Krakauer

  Promise, Intimate Relationship With God, Taught

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.

  David Bainbridge

  Pregnancy, Two, People

  David Bainbridge (2001). “Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Perception, Poison

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Breathing, Mind, Movement

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• The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes...and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He...appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too.

  Luci Swindoll

  Spiritual, Eye, Mirrors

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• Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

  Gerda Lerner

  Sex, Commitment, Order

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