Quotes about Intimacy

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Bravery - Intimacy - People - Thinking

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Ada Lovelace

Mathematician, Writer

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

Intimacy - Mathematics - World

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

Fall - Intimacy - Knowledge - Man - Playing

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Steve Jobs

Business Magnate, Investor

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Intimacy - Making - Operation

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Accept - Friendship - Intimacy

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Intimacy

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

Intimacy - Knowledge - Perfection

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

Feelings - Giving - Hugging - Intimacy - Meditation - Reality

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

Compete - Human - Intimacy - Man

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Hannah Arendt

Philosopher, Political Theorist

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

Conversation - Demanding - Intimacy - Phenomena - Politics - Speaking

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Intimacy - Marriage

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Anais Nin

Writer

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

Danger - Human - Intimacy - Phone - Poverty - Radio - Vision - Voice

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary

Intimacy - Mother - Sacrifice - World

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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

Achievement - Destroying - Help - Intimacy - Mystery - Secrets - Spirits

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Contemplation - Harmony - Intimacy - Man - Religion - Universe

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Teresa of Avila

Saint

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Accept - Intimacy - Secrets - Sharing

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Konrad Lorenz

Statesman, Scientist, Zoologist

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Enough - Intimacy - Nature - Observation - Poetry - Wellness

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Rajneesh

Guru

Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

Enemy - Expectation - Femininity - Fighting - Giving - Intimacy - Man - Marriage - Pretense - Supremacy - Talk - Together

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Intimacy - Resistance

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