Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day. —Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl More about this quote Tags: fear risk vulnerability holding back Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you love, you open yourself up to numerous vulnerabilities and worries and responsibilities you never imagined existed because suddenly there’s someone else in the world who’s more important to you than you are. That’s what makes it so tough. —Linda Kage in A Fallow Heart More about this quote Tags: love vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. —Sigmund Freud More about this quote Tags: love power vulnerability defense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself. —Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow More about this quote Tags: time vulnerability feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy. —Rachel Naomi Remen More about this quote Tags: happiness joy suffering vulnerability distance numbness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don't you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean, you got zapped. But that love you felt, that's just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That's just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: love heart vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection. —L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty More about this quote Tags: love kindness rejection vulnerability misery cruelty bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. —Theodor W. Adorno More about this quote Tags: love strength weakness vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I made the mistake of opening my heart up to someone who clearly could never feel the same about me. —Abbi Glines in The Vincent Brothers More about this quote Tags: love relationships vulnerability unrequited love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing I truly knew—knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest—was how love gave someone the power to break you. —Stephenie Meyer in New Moon More about this quote Tags: love power vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. —Barbara de Angelis More about this quote Tags: love fear vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable. —Mary H.K. Choi in Emergency Contact More about this quote Tags: love preciousness vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. —Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum More about this quote Tags: solitude love life risk vulnerability heartbreak yearning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email