Quotes about Intimacy
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Love follows knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
— Leo Buscaglia
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
— Leo Buscaglia
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.
— Max Lucado
I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
— Pope Benedict XVI
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
— Margaret Atwood
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
— CS Lewis
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
— Elisabeth Elliot