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50 Quotes For Every Girl Who Has Ever Been Afraid To Let Love In

Because the risk is always going to be worth it. 
Heidi Priebe
June 27, 2016
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, No Title
Tagged: Excitment, Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Enjoying Life
“Throw your heart over the fence. The rest will follow.”
— Mac Anderson, The Essence of Leadership
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Going For It, Following Your Heart, Inspirational
“You will either step forward into growth or you will step backward into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow, No Title
Tagged: Growth, Change, Security, Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Moving Forward
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Fear, inspiration, motivation, Embracing Fear
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Love, Life, Perspective, Inspirational
“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and if you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness
Tagged: Poetry, Relationships, Communication, Urgency, Texting, Passion, Love, Young Love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.””
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Accepting Love, Change
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Exploration, Life, Optimism, Destiny
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: heart, Identity, Listening To Your Heart, Trust Yourself
“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
Tagged: inspiration, Self-Doubt, Going All In, Commitment, Choices, Making Decisions
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Fighting For Love, Taking Risks, Leap of Faith, Falling In Love
“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love, strength, Trust
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”
— Dr. Joshua Bennett
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Taking Chances, Choosing Love, romance, Going All In
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”
— David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
Tagged: Trust, Relationships, Self-Trust, Love, Intimacy, vulnerability
“The idea is to participate in your existence. ”
— Buddy Wakefield, Free Air
Tagged: Life, Living, Taking Action, Taking Initiative, Making Things Happen, Making Change
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. 
Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the Earth’s hips 
And our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary. 
Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity 
Combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills 
Will leave us like a love letter 
In a landfill. 
But whatever 
However 
Whenever this ends I want you to know 
That right now 
I love you forever.”
— Andrea Gibson, How It Ends
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Beginnings, Endings, Passion
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Life, Challenges, Obstacles, Optimism, Faith, The Forty Rules Of Love, Rumi, Elif Shafak
“When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can’t do.”
— J. C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year
Tagged: Action, Taking Action, Taking Risks, Doing It Scared, Fear
“Step into this experience
with the goose bumps
in your heartbeat.”
— Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice
Tagged: Love, Fear, Nervous, Doing It Scared, Taking A Chance
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, Inspiring Love Quotes
Tagged: Eleanor Roosevelt, Love, Pain
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.
So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Withholding Love
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Self-Perception, Self-Esteem, Faking It Until You Make It
“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events(13 Book Series)
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships
“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Waiting, Taking Action, Self-Direction
“I did not fall into love – I rose into love.”
— Edward Bulwer, A Collection of First Love Quotes
Tagged: Love, First Love
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Asking, Dreams, Asking for what you want
“The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Uncertainty, Certainty, Answers