Quotes About Closeness

sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

Such moments as these, such closeness to nature, are like a Sunday rest to all one's activities. 'In it thou shalt do no work'; in it alone one may 'listen to the voices' and receive what nature has to give and what man himself is hardly ever fit to receive.

Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.

I think I know you absolutely.

When we had finally become friends, when the four of us trusted each other enough to let the world surrounding us into our words, we whispered secrets. Pressed side by side by side, or sitting crossed legged in our newly tight circle. We opened our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies finally live outside of us.

Afterward, he had held Iris so tightly. If she hadn't said, I can't even breathe right now, he would have still been holding on to her, wanting to pull her inside of him. Even bent in front of the side mirror, just inches from him, Iris still felt too far away.

Tù, sin hablar, me miras y te aprietas a mí y haces tu llanto sin lágrimas, sin ojos, sin espanto. Y yo vuelvo a fumar, mientras las cosas se ponen a escuchar lo que no hablamos.

for the other sort of intimate acquaintance

You can't take the leaps of vulnerability involved in working through early emotional injuries while you are feeling emotionally unsafe. Because you are emotionally unsafe. And if you succeed in acheiving greater intimacy with your abusive partner, you will soon get hurt even worse than before, because greater closeness means greater vulnerability for you.

Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He's really the closest.

Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.

God isn't afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn't pull back. He pulls you close.

God, I want Your truth to be the loudest voice in my life. Correct me. Comfort me. Come closer still. And I will trust. God, You are good at being God.

Have you ever dared to ask this? Have you ever dared to say to God, Lord, whatever Your will for my life is, that is what I want? Believing God is not for the weak at heart. It's only for those who want to discover the rich blessings of walking close enough to God to hear the constant drumming of His heartbeat.

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

A heaviness settled in that I couldn't explain or pinpoint exactly. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously. Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love.

there is an inverse relationship between income and closeness to parents.

The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell nothing but him. The grain of his lips seemed to rest a hairsbreadth from mine.

Less than a month we had spent together, yet he seemed to know me better than anyone who had ever walked the world.

I let him hold me, let him press us length to length so close that nothing might fit between us.

There is only her small hand on my stomach, and the softness of her cheek as I stroke it. It is strange how well she fits there.

I had to make a guess about what would be right and what would be wrong for her. I had to take a risk. I based the risk on what I know of loneliness, of the need of closeness in loneliness. I stroked her, totally impersonal, the way you soothe a terrified animal. At first she would leap and buck at the slightest touch. After a while there was only a tremor when I touched her, and finally that too was gone. She hiccuped and at last fell down into sleep, curled and spent.

answer. It sounded too damned close.

When we abandon ourselves to love, we find ourselves closer to the one who is always doing that Himself. We find God.