You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

E.a. Bucchianeri Beauty Caring Confidence Deep Love Fear Fearless Fearless Love I Love You I Love You Always I Love You Forever Love Opening Up Relationships Romance Soul Mates True Love Trust Trust The Ones You Love Trusting The Ones You Love

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Creative Process Expansion Opening Up Writing

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things.

~ Arka Pain

Arka Pain Beauty Family Friends Friendship Insecurities Love Opening Up Unconditional Love

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?

~ Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine Friendship Isolation Loneliness Love Opening Up Vulnerability

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Accepting Personalities Authentic Self Being Free Communication Confidence Ego Egotistical Everything Is Not About You Family Freedom Friends Gossip Growing Up Guessing Internalizing Letting People In Listening Low Self Esteem Members Narcissism Not Caring Opening Up Overthinking Paranoia Personalizing Reading Between The Lines Reading In To Everything Seeing Self Directed Self Esteem Settings Siblings Social Circles Speculation Taking Things Personally Target Understanding Victomization Winning Wisdom

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

~ Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Feelings Happiness Opening Up

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

~ Bryan Way

Bryan Way Betrayal Double Crossing Emotional Availability Honesty Knife In Your Back Opening Up Vulnerability

People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they’ll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they’re in.

~ Rhian J. Martin

Rhian J. Martin Human Nature Mussels Opening Up

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

~ Kristin Cashore

Kristin Cashore Focus Opening Up Perception

I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.

~ J.p. Delaney

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