Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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If you want to fall in love, you can’t hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You’ll be hurt sometimes, but if you don’t, you’ll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind…you expected to fall in love with, but it won’t matter, you’ll love…
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more.
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.
There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
If I want someone to understand my perspective, it helps to understand where they're at and meet them there.
Beware of what you let enter your heart. There’ll come a day when you’d give anything to remove it.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t have preconceived notions about anybody.
When a person can see into your soul, it’s hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.
But why, why, why can’t people just say what they mean?
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.