Self Disclosure Quotes

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
― Sarah Dessen

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
― Erma Bombeck

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography

“Confess your own sins, not someone else's”
― Sidney Jourad

“As you get comfortable revealing who you are, you help others stop fearing and concealing the magical feelings of who they are.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“- Durham, amo-te.
Riu-se cinicamente.
- É verdade: sempre te amei...
- Boa-noite, boa-noite.
- Digo-te, é verdade...vim cá para tu dizer...exactamente da mesma maneira que tu: sempre fui como os Gregos sem o saber.
- Desenvolve esta afirmação.
As palavras abandoram-no de imediato. Só conseguia falar quando não lhe era pedido.

p.74, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER
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Durham, I love you. "
He laughed bitterly.
"I do — I have always —"
"Good night, good night."
"I tell you, I do — I came to say it — in your very own way — I have always been like the Greeks and didn't know."
"Expand the statement."
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwrecked castaways, intersecting other island dwellers, and when we meet them, we hold ourselves out in offering and grant them a chance to accept or reject us. With our souls held together with twine and tape and glue, we bounce from rejection to rejection until we find the one who accepts us.

This is the thirst of the human soul, and only one thing satisfies it: to be accepted in the knowing.”
― Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper

“You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.”
― Laura Dave, The Divorce Party

“While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwrecked castaways, intersecting other island dwellers, and when we meet them, we hold ourselves out in offering and grant them a chance to accept or reject us. With our souls held together with twine and tape and glue, we bounce from rejection to rejection until we find the one who accepts us.

This is the thirst of the human soul, and only one thing satisfies it: to be accepted in the knowing.

[Murphy Shepherd]”
― Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper