Love Vulnerability Quotes

#1. I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

Jewel

#2. Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she's offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women.

Gillian Flynn

#3. Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

Betsy Landin

#4. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

Janet Fitch

#5. I am a great believer in not pushing each other's "buttons" just because we know where they are! That's part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#6. Baby, I'm sorry," he said dropping his forehead to mine in a rare moment of vulnerability. His voice was rough and shaky. "Help me. Please. I don't know what I'm doing here."
"What are you trying to do?" I asked.
He raised up, just enough to look me in the eye. "I'm trying to love you.

T.M. Frazier

#7. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.

Marilyn Lacey

#8. Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. It's the closest I've ever felt to dying.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#9. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

John Bradshaw

#10. We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Bell Hooks

#11. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. Once you've surrendered yourself to another, you've been conquered. Surrender = vulnerability. Vulnerability means someone else has the advantage over you. Still interested?

Donna Lynn Hope

#13. Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

Jamie Arpin-Ricci

#14. Here's the bottom line: If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way - especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#15. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

Danielle Cormack

#16. It's only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved.

Brownell Landrum

#17. I think there's always a bit of insecurity in love, if you truly love somebody. If you open yourself up, if you allow yourself to be hurt, there's potential vulnerability. That's real love. Somebody can stomp all over you if you really love them, and you give them your heart anyway.

Fred Schruers

#18. You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

Gary Kemp

#20. I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Kari Matchett

#21. We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love - to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.

Paul Kalanithi

#22. I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesnt exist. Maybe we all do. Maybe we're all chasing unicorns.

Josh James Riebock

#23. When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with their own property. In reality, deciding for ourselves is the only way we can ever have true love, for then we are giving freely.

Henry Cloud

#24. We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#25. One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.

Marty Rubin

#26. Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

Ed Helms

#27. Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them
just as an education, a precaution.

Arundhati Roy

#28. I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the practical effects. You can look at a creature and still see vulnerability or the character behind the creature. To get character behind CG creatures, that's so few and far between.

Kevin Munroe

#29. We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Frank Crane

#30. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

Kari Matchett

#31. I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

Ian Somerhalder

#32. Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#33. I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

David Levithan

#34. He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#35. One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

Vironika Tugaleva

#36. One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

#37. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Brene Brown

#38. Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Emilia Fox

#39. From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

George Carey

#40. How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.

Michelle J. Howard

#41. We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity - with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

Sharon Salzberg

#42. If we're wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn't even reach where we truly live.

Alexandra Katehakis

#43. I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that's why I feel hopeful.

Ashley Judd

#44. Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

Geneen Roth

#45. Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.

Alexandra Cruz

#46. Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in.

Brene Brown

#47. Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard.

Vironika Tugaleva

#48. Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.

Alaric Hutchinson

#49. I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

Grayson Perry

#50. Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain.

Laura Ramirez

#51. ... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#52. These moments of shared vulnerability are what make me believe that we are equals. That what Ian said before is true - underneath money, fame, class differences, we all bleed the same color. We all hurt the same. We all need, hate, love, cry, want.

Jen Frederick

#53. And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Christine Feehan

#54. I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#55. I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

Moby

#56. We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.

Brene Brown

#57. True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles.

Shane Eric Mathias

#58. Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am.

Manuel Alegre

#59. The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

Mary Lambert

#60. As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer

#61. I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.

Irwin Kula

#62. The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

Donald Miller

#63. Her jaw was firmly set, but her lips ... her full, perfect lips were slightly parted in an expression that matched the vulnerability in her eyes -frightened yet determined. His heart skippeed a beat, and he swallowed the lump in his throat.

Melanie Dickerson

#64. Vulnerability has to happen for love to be real.

Pam Godwin

#65. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

Gladys Taber

#66. I'm alive and capable of love, and love is a fucking river. It's never ending and it flows through us, all around us, keeps us alive and decadent, fierce from struggle and genuine in our vulnerability. I

Daniel Jose Older

#67. When people fight about something, the subject of the argument is rarely the real issue. The real issue is about vulnerability, connectedness, safety, trust or love - which are all emotional states.

Shawn Kent Hayashi

#68. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#69. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Katherine Center

#70. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#71. Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

Girl234

#72. He holds his hand out for me to see it like he's cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

Eda J. Vor

#73. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister

#74. I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.

Alice Walker

#75. I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.

Ashley Greene

#76. Humans were made for love and beauty; their vulnerability was what made them feel on the deepest level and what could also crush their will to live.

Juliette Cross

#77. Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

Henri Nouwen

#78. I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

K. Weikel

#79. I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

#80. The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Jane Fonda

#81. People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

Jodee Blanco

#82. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#83. It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

Pema Chodron

#84. A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#85. Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#86. Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being an easy prey.

Alice Walsh

#87. The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Paulo Coelho

#88. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#89. His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#90. I believe that vulnerability - the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy.

Brene Brown

#91. Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.

Crystal Woods

#92. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain.

Brene Brown