“The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.” PeopleNeedsTruth IsIntimateAccountabilityFormalGodlyIntimate RelationshipsRelationships With Others Author:Wayne Mack
“Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.” MenWantGrowsExistenceMagicReadyProductsDependsTiredMedicinePaintOilEnjoyedIntimateNutsFlavorResumesIntimate Relationships Author:Euell Gibbons
“A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.” MadeIndividualCommunityGroupsTypeLocalsIntimateNeighborhoodVillageKinshipIntimate RelationshipsLarge Family Author:Carroll Quigley
“When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.” PeopleTryingWellsKindSelfPainSpeakForceSpecialAwarenessDignityVulnerableIntimateSelf SufficiencySufficiencyIntimate RelationshipsPersonal Dignity Book:Recovering: A Journal Source: Recovering: A Journal
“Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.” PeopleNeedsPersonsLongOrderSexTermQualityEssentialsCommitmentIntimateLong TermNurturingIntimate Relationships Author:Gerda Lerner