Taylor Swift Quotes

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

You don't get to see all my family drama, you don't get in my relationships, and you don't get to live inside my personal life. But if you don't pick at me, I'm pretty open to just let you in.

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

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

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

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.

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

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

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.