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Quotes About Vulnerability

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
~ Gerald May
We are easily duped by those we love.
~ Moliere
Look after my heart - I've left it with you.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
~ David Whyte
The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person
~ Hozier
I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.
~ Britney Spears
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
~ Robert Bly
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.
~ Shauna Niequist
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
~ William S. Burroughs
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on.
~ PJ Harvey
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
~ Simone Weil
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
~ Alan Cohen
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
~ Galway Kinnell
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop
~ H. L. Mencken
When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.
~ Scarlett Johansson
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
~ Franqois Mauriac
Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.
~ Norman Mailer
Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken
~ Tina Turner