Quotes About Vulnerability

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you canít take it. And at this moment you're a part of them.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Not many understand the violence it took to become this soft...

People don't abandon people they love. People abandon people they were using.

Soulmates are people with the mutual understanding that no one else will put up with their BS.

The right one will know all your weaknesses and never use them against you.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

There are times she is kneeling out of obedience, reverence and respect. Those are the times it is okay to stand above her. But when she is kneeling because the weight of the world is just too heavy to bear...that is when you should be kneeling beside her.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who can no longer weep.

Trust comes easily when you recognize that the person you love isn't the same as the people from your past.

No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself - that is, if he reveals himself at all.

You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.

Deine Anpassungsfäheigkeit—Your ability to adapt," her husband said, "is far more dangerous to you than any of them will ever be. You'll keep adapting and adapting until nothing is left.

No one has called me. They all think I'm toxic or damaged, or both. I cannot stop crying so Dad holds me while Mom stands in the doorway with her half-open mouth and palms against her chest. Dad rocks me and whispers to me. He sings a little song in my ear as he dries my naked body with a towel while Mom stands in the doorway. He carries me to my bed, rests me head on his knees and lets my tears and snot soak dark spots into his white trousers.

I was feeling like somebody is coming to take everything that I like and just make me to sad.

People should know when they are conquered, OJ used to say when he would pin me to the floor and tickle me until I couldn't tell whether I was laughing or crying. There is nothing you can do, give it up, it's easier that way, OJ would say. You can't win, so just let go, he said once when I said I wanted to punch my father in the face.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.