Quotes About Self-disclosure

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

You can ask me anything. I'm an open book.

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

not being able to tell me anything about themselves, they were telling me everything.

You don't have to share everything with everybody. Not everyone must know about all parts of you—just the parts they need to know.

Already in this world the perfect Sufis live with God. They journey into the Infinite, listening to the music of God's creative command. At each moment God says "Be" and a new selfdisclosure, more glorious and perfect than the preceding, delights the eye. In the words of Iraqi, The song will never cease, nor the dance come to an end, for all eternity, because the Beloved is infinite.

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

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

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners.

it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

I understood then how guarded I'd been before with men, how little of me I'd let them see.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her.

I don't want to hide who I am and want to be accepted fully for all that I am.

I find it very hard to approach people. I take a very long time to open up and become friends with someone.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see?

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.