Quotes About Intimacy

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. — A QUOTE FROM THE FILM

trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions,

Vulnerability is not oversharing, it's sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

We need to trust to be vulnerable, and we need to be vulnerable in order to build trust.

People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart.

be the person whom we long to be—we must again be vulnerable. We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.

let ourselves be seen and known

Trust is the stacking and layering of small moments and reciprocal vulnerability over time. Trust and vulnerability grow together, and to betray one is to destroy both.

We have to be able to talk about how we feel, what we need and desire, and we have to be able to listen with an open heart and an open mind. There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In.

How do I know if I can trust someone enough to be vulnerable? Can I build trust without ever risking vulnerability?

It also takes discipline and self-awareness to understand what to share and with whom.

Honestly, as someone who rarely risked vulnerability and always steered clear of silly or goofy, it never dawned on me that adults could love each other like that; that I could be loved for my vulnerabilities, not despite them.

Vulnerability paradox: Vulnerability is the the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I want you to see in me.

Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust.

To be on my list, you have to be what I call a "stretch-mark friend"—our connection has been stretched and pulled so much that it's become part of who we are, a second skin, and there are a few scars to prove it. We're totally uncool with each other.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

We have to own our story and share it with someone who has earned the right to hear it, someone whom we can count on to respond with compassion.

The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples

It is not easy to hate people close up. And when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions. Almost everyone I've ever interviewed or known will tell you that it's easier to be pissed off than it is to be hurt or scared.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or

You might say "I love you" every day, but when's the last time you had a serious conversation with someone about the meaning of love?

vulnerability.

We have to be able to talk about how we feel, what we need and desire, and we have to able to listen with an open heart and an open mind. There is no intimacy without vulnerability.