John Rzeznik Quotes

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.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

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

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

It's important for a guy to know and understand me before he can even think about taking things to the next step.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

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.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.