Intimacy Quotes - Page 20

• My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Generations, Relentless, Social

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

  Cliff Sloan

  Moving, Unique, Law

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• I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

  Donald Miller

  Self Esteem, Believe, Talking

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

  Henry Cloud

  True Intimacy, Disagree

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• There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Example, Vulnerability

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.91, Penguin

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• A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

  Mervyn Levy

  Expression, Drawing, Diaries

  Mervyn Levy (1965). “The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings”, London : Barrie & Rockliff

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• Secrets are the currency of intimacy

  Frank Warren

  Secret, Currency

  "The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with PostSecret’s Frank Warren". Interview with Ben Huberman, longreads.com. February 2015.

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• You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Silence, Deaf

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• Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Real, Car, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

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• Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

  Marty Becker

  Animal, Winning, People

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• It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Passion, Two

  "Motion for Address in Reply". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. October 24, 1950.

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• Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lasts, Stage

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 15, 2011

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• We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Reading, Silence

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• [Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

  Jean Genet

  Doing Nothing, Fuse

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, Myopic, Avalanches

  Source: collider.com

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• The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

  Aberjhani

  Relationship, Love You, Millions

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

  Julia Cameron

  Roots, Anorexia, Artistic

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.257, Souvenir Press

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• The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Simple, Emotional

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• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Ideas

  "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Target Audience, Numbers, People

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• The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

  Dallas Willard

  Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.

  Mark Shields

  Lonely, Skills, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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