Intimacy Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

  Miranda July

  Couple, Men, Feet

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• Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.

  Jacques Leclercq

  Love You, Love Is, Lovers

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• The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Character, Two

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• For such,
  Being made beautiful overmuch,
  Consider beauty a sufficient end,
  Lose natural kindness and maybe
  The heart-revealing intimacy
  That chooses right, and never find a friend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For My Daughter”

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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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• his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Yellow, Way

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Surface

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.322, A&C Black

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• Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Air

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• This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Communication, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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• Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reality, Giving, Meditation

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• Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

  Andrew Vachss

  Enemy, Spirit, Vulnerable

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hurt, Future, History

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Knights, Might

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• The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, Sleep, Boys

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.460, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Silence, Soul, Essentials

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• Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Mean, Charity

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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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• 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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• Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

  John Green

  Emotional, Substitutes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.206, Penguin

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• Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Drunk, Giving

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Real

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