It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
I love the podcast medium. I really like the intimacy of it. You're just listening to voices in your ears.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.
I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
When you have a great intimacy coordinator on set - which Bridgerton' does - you eliminate all of the stress.
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.
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