Intimacy is a risk. It should not be taken lightly, but we must take it. No man or woman can live a full life without being known by at least one person. Intimacy is a prerequisite for all those who wish to live the abundant life. The only true reason to delay the adventurous and risky pursuit of real intimacy is the absence of a confidant freely chosen and worthy of our trust. The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
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Quote:- Intimacy is mutual self-revelation. It is two people constantly discovering and rediscovering each other. It is an endless process because our personalities have an endless number of layers. Conversation, shared experiences, and simply spending time together peel back these layers and reveal new and different aspects of our personalities. Intimacy is also a constant rediscovering because our preferences change, our hopes and dreams change, and as a result so does the way we want to spend our days and weeks. Intimacy takes time.
The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
Author:- Matthew Kelly
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Intimacy is sharing the journey to become the-best-version-of-ourselves with another person. It is a mutual self-revelation that takes place gradually, cannot be rushed, and can only be realized by the commitment of time.
The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
Author:- Matthew Kelly
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Author:- Alain de Botton
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.
Courage My Love
Author:- Merle Shain
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
The Courage to Create
Author:- Rollo May
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Into adulthood through which everyone is always in a different way. Do not feel left out because of it. So, do not worry about it. Since everyone has experienced the same thing.
Author:- Ziyah
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again.- Poem XL
A Shropshire Lad
Author:- A.E. Housman
Category:- poetry
Quote:- INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.
A Boy's Will
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Author:- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that I loved the best Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
Author:- John Clare
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
The Apple that Astonished Paris
Author:- Billy Collins
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Introspection is a form of self-management. You reflect. You decide. You change. You allow yourself to grow.
Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
Author:- Raoul Davis Jr.
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Introverts are not afraid to be 'weird' or 'odd-looking', to look different from the rest. They're not afraid to do their own thing, in their own pace. They don't succumb to peer/social pressure. Therefore, in my view, introverts are the strongest bunch of our society.
Author:- Mitta Xinindlu
Category:- Life
Quote:- Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.
Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
Author:- Sylvia Clare
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it is filtered to society vis-à-vis America’s major institutions . . . particularly the educational system; ultimately, shaping the very essence of life.
Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Author:- Martin Guevara Urbina
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Inventing is a combination of brains and material. The more brains you use, the less material you need
Author:- Charles F. Kettering
Category:- science
Quote:- Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
My Inventions
Author:- Nikola Tesla
Category:- science
Quote:- Inventions are Personal But An Idea is Always Universal.
Author:- Pradip Bendkule
Category:- Life
Quote:- Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
Author:- Dorothy Parker
Category:- hope,knowledge