Desmond Tutu Quotes

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

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

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

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.

What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

would you dare to love me?

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?