Quotes About Vulnerability

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you."

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?

I'm not at ease with the word "love."

Love is like the lion's tooth.

Love is still something I'm learning about.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

Submit to love without thinking

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.