Love Intimacy Quotes

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

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure-- a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.
--Nathaniel Branden

Love simply cannot spring up without that self-surrender to each other. If either withholds the self, love cannot exist.
--Dr. E. Stanley Jones

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.
--Charlotte Joko Beck