Quotes About Vulnerability

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!

If two people are honest with each other, there is no kind of woe they can't survive.

Admitting that you're broken truly is the first step to getting fixed.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

The courage to confess, bring into the light, and openly share one's hidden fears or shameful ways is the sure path to freedom.

We are as sick as our secrets.

If you are not going to pretend you are problem-free, at least show everyone you are deeply ashamed. 5. If you are not going to either pretend to be perfect or act ashamed, don't show up.

He avoided eligible young women, too, because he was insecure in their presence and was afraid of failure and rejection in love.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

a heart that is open to the world must be willing to be broken at any time. This brokenness produces the kind of grief that expands the heart so that it can love more and more.

the voices of the "buried life" only reveal themselves with utmost clarity when opened to the consciousness of a loved other.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall," the paratroopers liked to say. "He forgot to put a roof on it.

When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the schools, and the state. The cause of death is the missing safety net.

Virgins can't die. Their hymens are like armor.