Brene Brown Quotes

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.

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

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

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Intimacy is healing.

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

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

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

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

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

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.