Quotes About Vulnerability

People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

Love isn't a weakness.

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.