Jeaniene Frost Quotes

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

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

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.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

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

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

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

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

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.

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.

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

The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

Don't get too close, it hurts.

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

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

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.