“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.”— Rob Bell, amazon.com
“The reason relationships are falling apart in modern times, is because we now have choice. And we’re choosing to be scared. We’re choosing to run from our own vulnerability. We’re choosing to blame others instead of seeing the truth – the opportunity to look inside and grow.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“The problem is not in the girl who needed too much from him or the guy who exuded a fake arrogance to hide his vulnerability. The problem is that these people are mirroring back to us our own issues, and we keep switching people, but WE are the one common denominator. Their neediness, their arroganc…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re too busy staring at our smart phones and iPads that we don’t even know who we really are. We are over-stimulated, externally-focused and too scared to look inside and find out what lights us up inside, what our fears are, and who we are when the world feels like it’s closing in from the outsid…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“But because we have grown up in an age where everything is at our fingertips, when we reach out and it’s not easy and it scares us a little – we pull our hands back in and keep moving on. Looking for the next easy thrill in a new connection, not putting in the time to really see and love deeply.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We have become a society where some people are settling for being treated in a way that is less than they deserve because they’re scared of being alone, and others are not truly letting anyone in or giving them a chance because they’re scared of what those people will find out about them.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“The quiet shadow of you seeped under my window panes and found its way to the corner of my room, and before I knew it, I inadvertently gave you the permit to stay there, to build your own little space in my heart.”— Alexis Agape, thoughtcatalog.com