Anderson East Quotes

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

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

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

You can't develop full relationships with anybody unless you're fully honest about who you are.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

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.