Quotes about Intimacy
I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
- John Updike
Cudowny miód pÄ™czniaÃ…' w moich pachwinach.
- John Updike
It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy—with ourselves and the world—underneath any apparent separation between the two. The
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.
- Sheila Walsh
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
- Aldous Huxley
A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.
- Paul Washer
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- Maria Edgeworth
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
- Marianne Williamson
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
- Henry Cloud
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
- George Washington
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
- Herman Melville