Quotes About Closeness

I was real close with Jason Kidd.

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

cuatro años, y siento que nos conocemos muy

Hans y Grock se conocen tanto que no necesitan hablarse. A este profundo entendimiento entre hombres es a lo que se llama amistad.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Empathic reactions are always stronger the more we have in common with the other and the closer we feel to them.20

I complain because I can be unguarded with you.

People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In.

It is not easy to hate people close up. And when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions. Almost everyone I've ever interviewed or known will tell you that it's easier to be pissed off than it is to be hurt or scared.

In nature all things are close to or distant from each other. The psychological world knows first the intermediate region of distance seducing to nearness, nearness pressing towards distance, of an irreconcilable closeness-distance.

A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

When we invite friends for a meal, we do much more than offer them food for their bodies. We offer friendship, fellowship, good conversation, intimacy, and closeness. When we say, 'Help yourself… take some more… don't be shy… have another glass…' we offer our guests not only our food and drink but also ourselves. A spiritual bond grows, and we become food and drink for one another.

Together, Yet Not Too Near When we try to shake off our loneliness by creating a milieu without limiting boundaries, we may become entangled in a stagnating closeness.

But real openness to each other also means a real closedness, because only he who can hold a secret can safely share his knowledge. When we do not protect with great care our own inner mystery, we will never be able to form community. It is this inner mystery that attracts us to each other and allows us to establish friendship and develop lasting relationships of love.

The paradox indeed is that those who want to be for "everyone" find themselves often unable to be close to anyone.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other

But it was as if I had been looking at him for years and had known him always.

There are no themes so human as those that reflect the closeness of bliss to bale.

We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger.

Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.

Though I've known you a short time, I feel I know you intimately. Not your life but you, your emotions, your dreams, your aspirations.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.