Intimacy Quotes - Page 9

• Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Hunger

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, Heart, Adversity

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• It's easy to have a relationship and show each other only the beautiful shiny things. Sharing good parts about you is elementary, so finding a partner in life can't be only about showcasing these agreeable characteristics, but also the less impressive ones. In a strange way, true intimacy lies in that dark side-in making peace with the fact that it lives inside you somewhere-so that you can share it with the person and they can be there to help you overcome it.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Beautiful, Lying, Dark

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• I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Land, Perceive

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Defense, Hiding

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.

  Travis Mathews

  Honesty, Character, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our world does not need to hear more people talk about God or even about Jesus if those people do not have a lifestyle that reinforces every word they utter. The interesting thing is that the closer we walk in intimacy with God, the less we have to say. Our very lives become a bold and beautiful testimony to the purity, the freedom, and the beauty of the Lord Jesus.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Beautiful, Jesus, Our World

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• Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Prayer, Groups, Lord

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• It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.

  Gay Hendricks

  Real, Space, Independence

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• I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

  Andy Stanley

  Believe, Preparation, Groups

  Andy Stanley, Bill Willits (2009). “Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture”, p.32, Multnomah

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• It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Grows

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Self Actualization, Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

  Warsan Shire

  Color, Voice, Sound

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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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• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  Pablo Neruda

  Typewriters, Hands, Worship

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• The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Real, Two, People

  Jonathan Carroll (2014). “Bathing the Lion”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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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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• The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Organization, Growth

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• Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Joy, Unbearable, Has Beens

  J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.64, Discovery House

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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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• Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

  Pope Francis

  Breathing, Giving, Praise

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• The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Plies, Vacuity

  "The Temptation to Exist". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1956.

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