Emily Saliers Quotes

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

I believe love opens people up.

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 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 was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.