All Quotes By Tag: Intimacy

“Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it’s core, and does with phrases like “If it bothers you I won’t do it,” and “Now I understand.” And “Thank you for telling me that. I hadn’t seen it in that light.” And “I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight.”You’d be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.”

“And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.”

“But what is this psychic space, this common ground we seek to share, called intimacy – this place where you can exist in your own inner light and not be judged, this haven where your vulnerabilities don’t humiliate you, where sex is always warm and close and all your funny lines are understood, and there is always someone back to back with you when you take on the world?It’s a place where not only joy can be shared but hardship too, it’s an eye that catches yours across a room, it’s not having to look your best, it’s knowing someone else so well you can no longer tell where they begin and you leave off.”

“I’m not here to make you comfortable, I’m here to make you passionate.”

“Sensuality is a candle of passion that forever burns within us. But it’s also a wildfire to some of us.”

“A deep connection is a level where you are operating at your highest sensual frequency.”

“I don’t think relationships are just about physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips. Or any other part. (Lara Jean to Peter Kavinsky)”

“All this? It’s a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever. (Stormy)”

“I think loneliness is one of the greatest and realest things any of us can experience, because there is no one else there to corrupt it or interfere with our perception… which makes it extremely intimate and yet universal simultaneously.”

“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.”

“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.”

“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”

“Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.”

“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex “knowing”. Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He’d known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”

“It’s like the old question, “Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what’s inside?” Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what is inside: the delicate and sensitive ability to have and maintain an intimate relationship.”