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The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

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.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

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

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

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

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

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

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

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

We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

A deep connection is a level where you are operating at your highest sensual frequency.

A formal period in life where there isn’t the worry of another person’s dramas and insecurities can be of great advantage, especially when used for growing into the full and wholesome beings we intended to be when choosing to come to this material manifestation. “Even after ending a long relationship or a marriage, it seems normal to have some alone-time to reflect, meditate, explore areas of interest, find meaning in one’s suffering and try to placate the void felt in the heart before attempting to enter into new relationships, otherwise the same old mistakes will surely re-emerge. “Once we’re at the stage of life where we can stand our own silence, where we’ve made peace with our past, where we’ve accepted and grown from its lessons, and we would like to share our independence without becoming dependent on someone else for love and affection, then we can choose to commit to a two bodied intimate relationship.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

A intimidade é um dos caminhos para o silêncio.

A Lenina le resultaba muy inquietante. En primer lugar, su manía de hacerlo todo en privado. Lo que en la práctica significaba no hacer nada en absoluto. Porque ¿qué podía hacerse en privado?

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling right then…if we laid it all out for one another…we might not like the way the words strung together. Or the way fear and hope and bitterness and love mashed up into one big mess in the pits of our stomachs.

All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to blame emotional distance on a lack of time.

All this? It's a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever. (Stormy)

A lot of the heartache and confusion we feel in dating stems from treating dating mainly as practice for marriage (clarity through intimacy), instead of as discernment toward marriage (clarity and then intimacy).

A man can love her wife, or he can be her husband.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

Amica mia. Amore mio. Mio respiro.

An appropriately warm and affectionate relationship with the father is the greatest basis for future warm and lasting relationships with men emotionally and sexually. I say this not by virtue of any statistic but by virtue of the absence of such relationships is most of the sexually unhappy women I've treated. I can't think of one who had a wondrous relationship with her father- except for those who did have such a relationship but lost it because of the early death of the father.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.