Quotes About Intimacy

I kiss her moving mouth, Her swart hilarious skin; She breaks my breath in half; She frolicks like a beast; And I dance round and round, A fond and foolish man, And see and suffer myself In another being, at last.

We breathe in unison. The outside dies within, And she knows all I am. — Theodore Roethke, section 1 of "Memory," The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Doubleday, 1975)

I don't want the whole world, I just want your half.

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

A sexual relationship is an act of communion between body and spirit. This is a very important encounter, not to be done in a casual manner. In our soul there are certain areas—memories, pain, secrets—that are private, that we would share only with the person we love and trust the most. We do not open our heart and show it to just anyone.

Sexual intimacy shouldn't occur before there is communion, understanding, and sharing on the emotional and spiritual level.

Intimacy is at the heart of the teaching contained in this book. In the thirteenth century, Zen Master Eihei Dogen taught that enlightenment is just intimacy with all things.

Although physical desire is not love, it is impossible to have physical intimacy without emotional intimacy because body and mind are not two separate entities. What happens in the body will have an effect on the mind and vice versa.

The most precious gift you can give someone to the one you love is your true presence

Jonathan Bennett and I are very close friends.

The more time we spend with someone, the more we discover about each other. That's an endless journey.

You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can't just be about consumption.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.