Quotes About Vulnerability

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

Should we hold back from loving people because we carry the wounds of a few?

I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I'm afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

Your half empty..A broken glass, I love you can sound so beautifulUntil you stop to listenThat terrible background noise, you have no idea how bad I want to hold youBut I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.

Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited

Because we have loved profoundly, Because we have given much, Because we have hoped passionately, Because we have desired intensely, We allow ourselves to be infinitely hurt.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with 'being a man.' 'being a man' had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless

But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.

I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.

Allow your humanity to shine.

I have stretch marks on my heart.

Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same...

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.