Quotes About Vulnerability

At different states in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at the heart, the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you. If love doesn't shatter you, you will not know love

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything... Throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers to anything and see if people understand

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other

Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Every mans dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

The meaning of life is to love yourself completely, free yourself and others from guilt and become totally visible no matter what the risk.

Honestly, I miss the feeling of having a sweet boy who would stick around after seeing me in every way I can be and not take me for granted. Someone I can tell everything to like a bestfriend but cuddle with afterwards, and someone whos smile keeps me wanting more.