Sharing Thoughts Quotes

Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool.

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I remember when Twitter first came out. I was so against it, I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted to keep my life to myself. I felt like I didn't want to just put things out to the world that were pointless and meaningless.