Brene Brown Quotes

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

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.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

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

I am not someone who will hide my relationship.

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

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.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

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