Freddy Fender Quotes

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

I'm one of those people that hates to cut at anyone's love.

I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.

I am an emotional person.