#intimacy

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#happiness #humor #identity #intimacy #life

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#community #fear #intimacy #relationship #freedom

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #love #life

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #intimacy #love #soulmates

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. ↗

— Keith Miller

#i #i am #intimacy #reality #sharing

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#kissing #intimacy

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book. ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#literature #reading #intimacy

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#intimacy

God’s desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him! ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy-with-god #real-love #soaking #experience