Kenny Omega Quotes

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

You can't develop full relationships with anybody unless you're fully honest about who you are.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.