Quotes About Vulnerability

Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.

You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

Love is dangerous in the best way possible.

One is very weak when one is in love.

Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Girls weren't drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I'll learn, is far harder to treat.

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.

When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.