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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. (Quote by - Robert Sternberg)

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. (Quote by - George Santayana)

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. (Quote by - Marcel Jouhandeau)

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure (Quote by - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. (Quote by - Diana Krall)

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. (Quote by - Eric Berne)

If you want to end your suffering enter your pain. (Quote by - Robert Augustus Master)

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure I am always surprised by how much people seem to like the most personal of my paintings the ones I think couldn't possibly be of any interest to anyone but me. (Quote by - Eleanor Blair)

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong. (Quote by - David Deida)

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. (Quote by - Garry Shandling)

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy... and intimacy creates understanding... and understanding creates love. (Quote by - American-French writer)

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. (Quote by - Alex Noble)

Many find it strange for a person to spend their life studying human happiness and intimacy. I find it strange for anyone not to. (Quote by - Primate)

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. (Quote by - Queen Victoria)

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding,intimacy and mutual valuing. (Quote by - Rollo May)

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I? (Quote by - Gaia Child)

Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery. (Quote by - peter)

I include just enough detail to allow the viewer to identify the subject, but then I leave intimate, abstract compositions in other areas for the viewer to enjoy. (Quote by - Brent R. Laycock)

I enjoy lying flat on the ground, looking at things above me. In this position, what is above me becomes the opposite of me. And in this face-to-face situation, I find intimacy. (Quote by - Nerrisa Ng)

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. (Quote by - Clifford Stoll)

Weath is a measure of the degree to which we are willing to share intimacy with our world. (Quote by - Ank Butterfly Dreaming)

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