Kehlani Quotes

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.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

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

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

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

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

A relationship is based on communication.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

Building a trust takes time.