Quotes About Vulnerability

First speech? Frightened beyond belief. First board meeting? Scared stiff. I was never good the first time, and I was always scared on top of that.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

I know some people who are afraid to write a business letter because they will encounter and reveal themselves.

But now that she had made him her confidant, he saw that he could not change this relationship.

Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.

Looking at her lying there, he thought what an appalling risk these lovers of 'happiness' take, when they bum their ships and trust their lives to the caprice of men.

It is women's fatal susceptibility to passionate touch that hypnotises them into by far the greater number of their disasters; for under this touch-hypnosis the present transforms itself into the eternal, and their grand sex-defence, their consciousness of continuity, their awareness of the future as an integral portion of the present, is shattered and broken up.

He had never been a man who attracted women, and he exaggerated their coldness towards him. Indeed in regard to the love of women he had a physical humility that was almost a mania. One of the strongest holds that Mary had over him was the simple fact that she, a sweet-looking, intellectual girl, could be in love with him at all! Secretly John regarded himself as the most unlovable human creature then living in Glastonbury.

It's so funny how we risk our lives for love with no assurance of those that we risk for would do the same for us.

If you dare to love someone, you must dare to take the risk that the person may leave you.

The scary thing about falling for someone is you don't know weather they will stay or just leave at any given time.

Love, the only thing that can kill peoples heart. Gently, without permission.

Love is easy to fall into, hard to fall out of and sometimes seems impossible to find.

Two people may fall for each other but sometimes one gets up and walks away while the other is still falling to the ground.

My biggest fear is loving someone that doesn't love you back.

Love doesn't start in the morning and end in the evening. it starts when you don't need it and sometimes ends when you need it the most.

The person that makes you weak is the very person that could make you the happiest on earth...

I never fall in love, because everything that falls breaks.

Why is it that when I'm finally over you, you start talking to me or show up out of nowhere and I fall back to where I was before?

I fall too fast, too hard, and it always ends up hurting me.

Why is it so hard to fall in love? Because sometimes you fall and no one was there to catch you. Sometimes you fall and they don't have enough strength to hold you. And sometimes you fall and the wrong person catches you.

The hardest part of acting like you don't care, is knowing how much you actually do.

Care too little, you'll lose them. Care too much, you'll get hurt.

You make me dumb, but it's not my fault. I'm a girl, words like 'I love you' play with my mind...