Seth Godin Quotes

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

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.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.

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.

If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.

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

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

To love is to be vulnerable.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.