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Intimacy in Marriage

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. "

- Hugh Macleod



"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."

- William Masters



"There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else."

- Brad Meltzer



"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

- Barbara de Angelis



"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

- Carolyn Heilbrun



"The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love. "

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

- Robert Sternberg



"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. "

- Alex Noble



"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife."

- David Herbert Lawrence



"It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy."

- Elizabeth Kostova



"If ever a man and his wife, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust."

- Lord Chesterfield



"I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene."

- Maggie Gyllenhaal



"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

- Euripides



"For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it -- in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it -- but this is who I am.'"

- Bill Hybels



"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May



"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!"

- Simone Signoret

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