Rebecca Stead Quotes

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

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Let my love open the door To yourheart.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

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

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

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 traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.