Quotes About Intimacy

The research participants described trust as a slow-building, iterative, and layered process that happens over time. Both trust-building and rumbling with vulnerability involve risk. That's what makes courage hard and rare.

the umbrella term love as including "the preoccupying and strong desire for further connection, the powerful bonds people hold with a select few and the intimacy that grows between them, the commitments to loyalty and faithfulness

When it comes to vulnerability, connectivity means sharing our stories with people who have earned the right to hear them—people

Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege,

vulnerability and love are the truest marks of courage.

When we come together to share authentic joy, hope, and pain, we melt the pervasive cynicism that often cloaks our better human nature. When we come together under the false flag of common enemy intimacy, we amplify cynicism and diminish our collective worth.

We are wired for connection. But the key is that, in any given moment of it, it has to be real.

Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?

They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit.

Man, can you two even tell the rest of the world exists when you look at each other like that?" With an effort, I made myself focus on her, and on her words. "What? I mean, um, no, we didn't fight. And . . . no. At least, I can't.

I never would have believed a guy—any guy—could affect me like this.

I was in love.

I admitted, still drinking in his eyes, his amazing face. I never seemed to get enough of that.

I know I have no right to ask for exclusiveness beyond that point, but until then, I want to know that no other man is on your mind, in your heart or a part of your soul. When I make love to you, I want you to be mine in every way a woman can belong to a man.

And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with." ~Sean O'Neill

You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.

Where can we go if not to each other, resenting every step?

Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.

When a woman you love hits you on the head with a book you love, is that love?

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.