Jurnee Smollett Quotes

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

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

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.

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

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

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.

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

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

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.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.