Self Disclosure Quotes

“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

“- 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

“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

“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

“The things we reach for when we’re trying to avoid a talking about something else sometimes mean as much.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“But I can’t talk to her because she’s going through hell and she doesn’t need to hear me ranting about a vase. But that happens sometimes, Rose, you want to talk about stuff but you can’t because your friends are going through things—real things, painful things—and you can’t talk to them because your stuff doesn’t feel as important as theirs.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“There’s something about Doctor Gilyard, about this tiny white room, that distorts things. I say things to her sometimes, things that make sense, things that have always made sense, but when I hear myself say them, they sound weird.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Here are two examples of emotional self-disclosure that are fundamental tools of my therapeutic work. I repeatedly express my genuine indignation that the survivor was taught to hate himself. Over time, this often awakens the survivor's instinct to also feel incensed about this travesty. This then empowers him to begin standing up to the inner critic. This in turn aids him to emotionally invest in the multidimensional work of building healthy self advocacy. Furthermore, I also repeatedly respond with empathy and compassion to the survivor's suffering. With time, this typically helps to awaken the recoveries capacity for self-empathy. She then gradually learns to comfort herself when she is in a flashback or otherwise painful life situation. Less and less often does she surrender to an inner torture of self-hate, self-disappointment, and self-abandonment.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving