Bill Johnson
Athlete
"Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source."
Intimacy quotes
Intimacy
159 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Intimacy is a difficult art."
Monica Baldwin
Author
"What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity."
Rollo May
Psychologist, Author
"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable."
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"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us."
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"When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning."
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"They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them."
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"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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"I try to stay away from forced intimacy."
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"Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing."
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"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark."
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"Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe."
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"There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings."
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"Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!"
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"When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers."
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"Deference and intimacy live far apart."
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"I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy."
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"There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude."
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"Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers."
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"Secrets are the currency of intimacy"
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"It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God."
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"All intimacies are based on differences."
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