Brooks Koepka Quotes

I kind of made the decision early on to be extremely open about everything and just pretend like all of these people watching were my close friends that I could tell stuff to and be honest with.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

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.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

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

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

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

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

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.

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.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

I'm an oversharer but selective about who I share with.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.