Quotes About Vulnerability

All intimate relationships are built on a foundation of honesty, trust, and attraction...

If you fall in love because someone makes you laugh, what happens when you no longer find them funny? If you fall in love because someone is beautiful, what happens when that beauty fades? If you fall in love because someone can provide for you, what happens when they lose wealth? Real love defies all reasons. When you truly love someone, you do not look for reasons, you see beyond reasons.

Relationships are built on all different foundations, but the ones that last are built on trust and open, honest conversations.

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person were safe in our own paradise.

My love for you is like a mirror; You can break it into a million pieces but when you look close...You're still in it.

Dont put me on a pedestal, for I am sure to fall. Just love me as I am, flaws and all.

There's 3 Things In Life Every Girl Needs; 1. Love to make her weak. 2. Alcohol to make her strong & 3. Best friends when both things make her hit the floor!

It's OK to be scared. It's OK to cry. Everything is OK. Be grateful, be alive and live every moment.

Everyone needs a person to whom you can actually tell the truth when she ask how are you?

We were born to be real. Not to be perfect.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The purpose of relationships is not to have someone who might complete you but to have someone whom you might share your incompleteness.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. But you'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome

Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and at any given time we are liable to be disappointed by them.

Let him." He kneels, smooths back the hair on my forehead. I am wrapped in blankets, to muffle the smell.

Soon our conversations spilled out of the night's confinement. I surprised myself with how much there was to say, about everything, the beach and dinner and one boy or another. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

How did it happen?" There was a piece of me that shouted its alarm: if you speak he will turn gray and hate you. But I pushed past it. If he turned gray, then he did. I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unraveling them again at night, making nothing. I told him the whole tale of it, each jealousy and folly and all the lives that had been lost because of me.

I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind any more, that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough.

Will you tell me who hurt you?' I imagine saying, 'You.' But that is nothing more than childishness.

They would both have run screaming at the first tooth. They cannot bear any pain at all. They are not like us.

It had never truly been anger, only fear and sorrow.