Quotes About Vulnerability

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.