Intimate Quotes - Page 16

• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Merit, Opinion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

  Eric Braeden

  Support And Love, Intimate Moments, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Relationship, Alive, Body

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• Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Blow, Wind

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• Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!

  Alfred Binet

  Science, Reflection, Simple

  "La suggestibilite". Book by Alfred Binet, p. 119-120, 1900.

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• Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Intimate Relationships

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• We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Meditation, Needs, Aids

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• Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation that comes to us from one or several witnesses. But we ourselves must be personally involved in an intimate and profound relationship with Jesus.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Jesus, Profound

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• Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.

  Rajneesh

  Confused, Creativity, Two

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• Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Spiritual, Needs, Flow

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• Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless I happen to have some intimate contact with a skunk which may induce me to learn more about him.

  Roger Adams

  Book, Doubt, May

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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  William Cowper

  Retirement, Kings, Home

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

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• I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

  I. K. Gujral

  Powerful, Groups, Tables

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• Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Son, Sacrifice

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• You can actually be intimate with the universe.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Smart, Universe

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• Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Men, Support

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Stars, Mirrors, Light

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage

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• It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Able, Privilege, Transcendence

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• Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Moving, Book

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Knowledge, Men

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Intimate Relationships

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.61, Random House

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• What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  White, Giving, Perspective

  "Madison's Chiaverini finds inspiration in Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. January 5, 2013.

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• I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  People, Choices, Action

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• No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.

  Iamblichus

  Soul, Apollo, May

  "Life of Pythagoras". Book by Iamblichus, Ch. 2: Youth, Education, Travels, translated by Thomas Taylor,

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