To Love Is To Be Vulnerable

[neo_prodigy]

The following C.S. Lewis quote speaks to me on so many levels as, well I won't lie, it's something I've been guilty of most of my life and it's a lesson I've especially had to learn this year. Hopefully it learned me.

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[deepseasiren]

Love to me is what the Prophet said: As love crowns you so it will crucify you.

[leoprincess]

"To love is to be vulnerable."

This is all too true, for both romantic and non-romantic senses. I wish I could say that I wasn't speaking from experience.

[marikunin]

Love that quote~

[boston_pobble]

To love someone is the greatest gift we can give another. To be loved is the greatest gift we can be given. The miracle is when they happen simultaneously. That miracle is what is worth the vulnerability.

[fitfool]

I love that quote. Thanks for sharing it. Here are two more on a similar line of thought:

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go" -Mary Oliver

"Love is an act of courage, not of fear." -Paolo Freire