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• Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

  Peter Breggin

  Best Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

  Peter R. Breggin (2006). “Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence”, p.103, Springer Publishing Company

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• If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Prayer, Love Is

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• Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Sex, Home, Character

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• We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

  Henry Franklin Floyd

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Reviewing The 4 Gay Marriage Cases The High Court Tacitly Endorsed" by Eyder Peralta, www.npr.org. October 6, 2014.

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• Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving, Sensual

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• Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.

  Michael Parfit

  Cousin, Children, Home

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• There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

  Thomas Merton

  Soul, Solitude, Know How

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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• Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman's devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman's tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy.

  David Deida

  Running, Moving, Men

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.

  Steven James

  Jesus, Easter, Believe

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• Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Self, Self Will

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.18, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Oneness, Fellowship, Depth

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.32, Discovery House

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• I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you’ll never dumb things down. You won’t have to explain things that don’t need explaining. You’ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don’t wish to be condescended to.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Smart, Writing, Dumb

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Still Life With Woodpecker

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Creation

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Looks, Littles, Studios

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• The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.  Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Brother, Humble, Self

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.

  Ted Olson

  Party, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

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• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Despair, Anticipation

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• Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

  Henry Green

  Night, Long, Feelings

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• We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

  Harriet Lerner

  Views, Two, Worldview

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• Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Sex, Distance, Heart

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Men, World

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  Brennan Manning

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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