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Quotes About Vulnerability

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
~ Brene Brown
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
~ Madonna
It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
~ Nicole Kidman
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
~ Suzanne Collins
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
~ Madonna
Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.
~ Teresa Mummert
It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.
~ Dorianne Laux, What We Carry
If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.
~ Brene Brown
Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.
~ Paul Simon
What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?
~ Alex Tan
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
~ Alexander Smith
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?
~ Helen Humphreys
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
~ James A. Baldwin
Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
~ Jodi Picoult
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
~ Rajneesh
You are my sweetest downfall.
~ Regina Spektor
I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional.
~ Sophie Anderton
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
~ Sophocles
Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
~ Anne Sexton
I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.
~ Ashley Judd