Yoko Ono Quotes

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

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

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

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.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

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.'

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.

We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.