Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

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

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

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