Best Emotional Risk Quotes

"Being vulnerable is scary, and on some level telling a story you care deeply about is a bit like tearing your heart out and submitting it for peer review."

"Maybe it is true that the most dangerous thing about Pandora is you may grow to love her too much."

"Love is a treasure chest, but once opened, our hearts become vulnerable."

"Everybody's gonna have to take some emotional risk, yeah, and you got to be okay with it. No, it's just what it is, you know what I mean? Like, it's not gonna work without that."

"There is no emotion more delicate than love; opening your arms and exposing your heart to someone can quite bluntly be terrifying."

"You can never really love unless being hurt is an option."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken."

"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed."

"Love is giving someone the ability to hurt you."

"You know, what happens with love is sometimes putting yourself out there and getting hurt. You know? Both of them explained that exchange."

"Philosophy poses cognitive and emotional risks. Engaging in philosophical inquiries can challenge deeply held beliefs and assumptions, affecting one's sense of identity and purpose."

"Be open to falling in love, be open to getting your heart broken."

"Open your heart. Don't be afraid to let love in, despite past hurts."

"If you want to experience love, you got to put yourself out there, you got to be open to experience even if you have to go through heartbreak and let downs."

"If you're not on the same page, someone's always gonna get hurt."

"To feel truly human, one must risk all that that entails."

"Starting YouTube is kind of an emotional risk, and what I've been thinking a lot about this month and what I've been reflecting on is that it's a risk that has paid off for me."

"We all have issues, we're all scared, but the good stuff only happens when we risk letting the bad stuff happen."

"The more we direct our dollars to those models, the more they're going to blossom."

"We often fear failing so much that we won't go somewhere, we won't take that emotional risk."

"Adults have to embrace the fear and the risk of being vulnerable."

"It's risk, and the risk is an emotional risk."

"Emotional sharing is riskier than emotional dumping because when you are authentically sharing your emotional experience you are putting yourself out there to have it be challenged or rejected or misunderstood."

"Love almost feels dangerous and it's almost like damn do I even want to go to this thing that's [ __ ] scary bro you know."

"Choosing to trust him meant it hurt more when the book started to take its toll on Simon."

"Rejection is a consequence of vulnerability."

"Love is suicide for real. I believe it because look, the one thing we don't do with love is honestly say what is the end result of romantic relationships."

"The more you risk by showing somebody you care, the bigger the reward is on the other side."

"One of the greatest risks that she takes this season is loving and being loved."

"Love is worth pursuing if it's worth all the risk."

"Love is a weapon to be wielded... until it makes you bleed."

"Love yourself enough to risk being rejected. Love yourself enough to let go of someone or something. Love yourself unconditionally."

"You have to give people the opportunity to break your heart if you let them into your heart."

"It's dangerous to need someone that much. You're trying to save him, and he's hoping you can. You two are a disaster."

"There's nothing easy about spilling your guts to the person who's got your heart in their hands."

"Love is giving people the power to hurt you."

"Friends with benefits only works for polyamorous people cuz somebody's gonna get hurt."

"Vulnerability is basically giving people permission to attack you emotionally."

"I was afraid to fall in love, but I did."

"I want to hook up with you, but I'm scared to catch feelings."

"The real danger is in the emotional risk of loving one another."

"I kind of feel like this could be like a situation that, um, by ripping the Band-Aid off, it kind of almost feels it could leave someone upset, hurt if the energy isn't reciprocated, if someone isn't willing to give more, because like the excitement was there."

"You're putting yourself out there and you don't know if what you feel is going to be reciprocated."

"Have you ever had a secret? One you know would end any chances you had with someone you love with every... every part of you?"

"I'm just going to have to be honest about what matters to me, even if it hurts in the moment."

"They're gonna risk being hurt because they care about you."

"I rather dodge these spears and feel loved sometimes than not feel love at all."

"You got to risk being hurt in order to experience love."

"Sometimes it hurts more to hope, and it hurts more to care."

"I believe that when you love someone and that person loves you in return, you're uniquely vulnerable. They have a power to hurt you like nothing else."

"When you feel love, you have the risk of feeling hate."

"It's hard to put your heart out there."

"You can't have love without the fall."