Best 491 quotes in «intimacy quotes» category

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

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.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

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.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

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

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

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.

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.

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

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 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 absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.