Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

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

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

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.

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.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I really enjoy being vulnerable, and it's how I connect with other people, and part of how I do that is through food, by sharing something that I feel is very intimate and personal because it's something that I create out of nothing.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I think the one thing about 'Total Divas' is that we all had to open up our lives. We all had to open up that book and show you every chapter we've been through. Then when you start comparing, you see we all have something in common. That's what made us all close.

My thing has always been, I've never been very open and vulnerable with people, so the minute I got this dog, everything changed. It just opened me up and made me more loving... It's all because of him... He's made me a better person... I can tell people what I feel now. I can cry in front of people sometimes.

I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

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

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

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.

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.

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.