Henry David Thoreau Quotes

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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.

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.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

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.

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

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

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.