Khalil Gibran Quotes

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.

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

Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

I believe love opens people up.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

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've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

Let my love open the door To yourheart.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

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