Brene Brown Quotes

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

It is very difficult to trust anyone and I always find that hard in relationships.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

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

When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.