Closeness Quotes - Page 6

• We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Years, Ideas

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• It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Light, Expression

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• The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

  Jana Oliver

  Kissing, Space, Next

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Heart, Cutting

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Earthfall”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.

  Chaim Potok

  Real, Passion, Other Cultures

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• Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his hips on against me. i turn to ask him a question, and he jerks his face away from the proximity of mine. I say, "Oh. Sorry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sorry, Faces, Hips

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.282, Scholastic UK

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• [Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.

  Pope Francis

  Son, Rome, People

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.

  Dalai Lama

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• [ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on states that were decided by a knife-edge.

  E. J. Dionne

  Country, Thinking, Knives

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Joy, Levels, New Friends

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.

  Alice Gardner

  Together, Mindfulness, Attention

  Alice Gardner (2008). “Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice”, p.54, Awake Publishing

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• There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

  Peter Stone

  Directors, Way, Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

  Ann Patchett

  Loyalty, Mother, Sibling

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?

  Paul Auster

  New York, Distance, Paris

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy et Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Government, Two, United States

  Source: time.com

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• Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

  Adam Duritz

  Crazy, Fall, Appreciate

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• I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.

  Alastair Campbell

  Regret, Thinking, Iraq

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Distance, Moving

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• Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Deep Affection, Needs

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Memories, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Faults, Becoming

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• In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Rama, Problem

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• the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Thinking, Expression, Two

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• Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Glasses, Vision

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.

  Ventseslav Konstantinov

  Spiritual, Feelings, Different

  "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.

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