Quotes of: Intimacy Keyword

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrit...

Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance ...

Gordon Neufeld

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Eugene H. Peterson

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant...

Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Hannah Simone

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

Ira Sachs

Linda Boone; Intimate Life Lessons: developing the intimacy with God you already have.

Intimate Life Lessons; developing the intimacy with God you already have.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Eric Berne

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

John Green

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Barbara Cartland

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Mike Myers

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

How can you get through to yourself?

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

Russell Smith

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

The Poetics of Space

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Henri Nouwen

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Henri Nouwen

oaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to “soak in and soak up” His presence, “soak in and soak up” His love. Soaking is positioning yourself b...

Intimate Life Lessons; developing the intimacy with God you already have.

Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence