Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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.

Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love)

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

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

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

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

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

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

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that's why I feel hopeful.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.