Colton Underwood Quotes

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.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.

What happens in the heart simply happens.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

I'm very human.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

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