May Sarton Quotes

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

I feel really held in being vulnerable. That's always been the kind of music that I've gravitated to as well, but to feel really supported by my audience in that is a real privilege.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys.

You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.

Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.