Intimacy quotations

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◆ I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

- Lauren Oliver99

◆ It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

- Lou Andeas-Salome98

◆ Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

- Stephanie Dowrick98

◆ I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

- Hisham Matar98

◆ Tu e?ti pentru mine rela?ia necesar?. To?i ceilal?i sunt ?ntampl?tori.

- Jean-Paul Sartre98

◆ Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.

- Jess C. Scott98

◆ I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

- Wallace Stegner98

◆ It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

- Catherynne M. Valente98

◆ Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities.

- R.M. Jones98

◆ God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

- Jaachynma N.E. Agu98

◆ Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

- Donna Goddard98

◆ The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

- Josephine Hart98

◆ Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.

- Jaachynma N.E. Agu98

◆ The physical stage of bonding is at its most powerful when all other forms of bonding have been achieved. If this has been done, the final petals of the flower have reached full maturity and unfold, leaving no restriction for pleasure, physical or otherwise. Having learned your partner and when to push, pull away or work together in fluid unison; having learned what enthuses and delights their senses, you are prepared to carry all of this knowledge into the sweet cadence of your unity.

- Shykia Bell98

◆ Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being.

- David C. Downing98