Quotes About True Intimacy

#1. The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.

Amy Harmon

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

Thomas Merton

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

Beth Moore

#4. But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.

Donald Miller

#5. 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

#6. A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you'll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you'll know true intimacy.

M.J. Abraham

#7. Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

Donald Miller

#8. Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

John Friend

#9. That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. true intimacy is only built around the freedom to disagree: "He who conceals his hatred has lying lips" (Prov. 10:18).

Henry Cloud

#11. Had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

Margaret Mitchell

#12. True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Henry Cloud

#13. True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Beth Moore

#14. True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Erica Jong

#15. The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

Jane Fonda

#16. True intimacy - sharing who you are, the very deepest part of you - with Him. God wants to listen to who you are.

Linda Boone

#17. That you and I don't use emotional condoms. We just let the messy goo of who we are fly free, threatening to impregnate us with insecurity of infect us with the pain of true intimacy.

Mo Daviau

#18. That's love. A part of what makes it so awesome is the level of real, true intimacy, and the risk you take by opening yourself up that way to someone who has the power to gut you.

Lauren Dane

#19. Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate.

Alain De Botton

#20. True intimacy comes from honesty, not the illusion of sweetness.

Gerald C. Wood

#21. God's purpose for marriage is for a husband and wife to experience a love relationship, where they passionately pursue each other daily, where the ups and downs draw them closer together, a place where true intimacy thrives.

Jennifer Smith

#22. People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

Stendhal

#23. We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.

J. Oswald Sanders

#24. Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Mark Polish

#25. The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

Paul Monette

#26. I was starting to fall for him,
He didn't say it but the way
He looked at me,
Told me he felt the same.

Nikki Rowe

#27. They never tell you when you get born a control freak it will cost you a healthy love life. But it's true. You can't control somebody and have intimacy with them at the same time. They may stay because they fear you, but true love casts out fear.

Donald Miller

#28. There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.

Jennifer DuBois

#29. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.

Ellen J. Barrier

#30. We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Brennan Manning

#31. All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

Amy Bloom

#32. A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.

Jennifer Ashley

#33. True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

William Temple

#34. The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

James Dickey

#35. We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

John Eldredge

#36. Emotional intimacy is most meaningful and profoundly felt when we share our true selves with our partner and when we create a loving space for our partner to do the same.

Elaina Marie

#37. Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#38. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

#39. Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Marianne Williamson

#40. Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less.

Donna Lynn Hope

#41. Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#42. Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

Ben Marcus

#43. The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught

John Verdon

#44. See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.

Suzan Battah

#45. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Henri Nouwen

#46. Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn't about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.

Steve Maraboli

#47. Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

Deepak Chopra

#48. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Acharya Mahapragya

#49. Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?

Charles Baudelaire

#50. A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Elizabeth Berg

#52. The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.

Alanis Morissette