Quotes About Closeness

Le bonheur se trouve souvent plus près de nous qu'on ne l'imagine.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate.

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

He liked to think he was in on the secrets she had. When she smiled slyly, he smiled slyly too, and they exchanged confidences in whispers. The world had drawn close around them, and they were in the center of it, or rather Rose of Sharon was in the center of it with Connie making a small orbit about her. Everything they said was a kind of secret.

God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that's why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can't notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

My immediate family is real close-knit.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

I like to stay home with my family.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

I have a very strong family.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Family is so important. Friends are so important. You need that connection.