True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.
Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Economized love is never real love.
You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.
Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.
I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.
There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
I'm not interested in anyone who would want me for the wrong reasons.
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
