Vulnerability Quotes

No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a q...

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on p...

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scare...

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnera...

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greate...

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, in...

Few of us enter romantic relationships able to receive love. We fall into romantic attachments doome...

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will conti...

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vuln...

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and c...

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embr...

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive em...

People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of...

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engag...

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable,...

I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't...

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnera...

There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning...

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've bee...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadersh...

Fear of the Dark I’ve always been prone to worry and anxiety, but after I became a mother, negotiati...

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...

No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They...

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still strugg...

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember f...

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some prid...

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be...

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying th...

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, som...

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat o...

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fe...

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wishe...

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...