Quotes About Vulnerability

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

The flaw is the thing we love.

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire.

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

There are two emotions: love and fear.

I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That's love.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.