Nurture Intimacy

Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul. - Unknown

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. - Brené Brown

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. - Dean Ornish

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. - Alain de Botton

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or – such is the pleasure they experience – they may never finish it. - Paulo Coelho

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. - Bertrand Russell

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil, and resistance. – John Gottman

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. - Brené Brown

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. - Marianne Williamson

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. - Keith Miller

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn, and grow. - Iyanla Vanzant