Quotes About Vulnerability

No one bruised as easily as a believer.

Elsa smiled. "It couldn't be worse than Rafe and me. Someday soon we will teach each other to dance, Jean. You and me, with music. And we won't care who is watching or what they think," she said. She pulled Jean into a tight hug and found it difficult to let go

Tenía el aspecto pálido y enfermizo de alguien que nunca sabía cuándo iba a comer. Y, sin embargo, le estaba ofreciendo comida.

I'm afraid," I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four

You think you have to hold it all in, and if you let any of it go, you'll shatter into tiny pieces and you won't know who you are. But it doesn't work that way. It's more like…opening your eyes in a room you'd expected to be dark. You can see things, and it makes you feel stronger.

Relying on people for comfort had never felt natural to her. The last thing she wanted was to give someone the power to hurt her. Self-preservation was the one thing she'd learned from her mother.

For when you love, you stand to lose so much. But I think you stand to lose far more when your heart is closed. That is no life.

For when you love, you stand to lose so much.

Voglio dire che l'amore è tutt'intorno a noi», afferma lui. «Ma più diventiamo vecchi, più lo troviamo sconcertante. Più sono le volte in cui siamo rimasti feriti e più ci risulta difficile riconoscerlo, accoglierlo nei nostri cuori e crederci davvero. E se non riusciamo ad accogliere l'amore, non possiamo mai provarlo davvero.»

Questo è proprio il tuo modo di evitare le cose. Non si può non fare nulla perché si ha paura di restare feriti.»

But when you grow comfortable hiding within a protective shell, it's harder than one might expect to stand up and say, "Actually, folks, this is who I am.

Ben has never really known me. He knew the pieces I chose to give to him, the body that nursed him, the voice that scolded him, the hands that soothed him. But there is so much more to me, pieces that had nothing to do with my role as his mother, pieces I never let him see.

She hadn't realized that once one opened the door to one's heart, it was impossible to fully close it again.

Maybe I owed it to him - and to myself, in a way - to try harder to understand where he was coming from, but the thought of letting down my walls was terrifying. It was my anger that kept me safe.

But I think you stand to lose far more when your heart is closed," Chaim said. "That is no life.

vulnerability is necessary if you hope to find some grace.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Abandoning perfectionism is such a relief for us, and them.

Transparency allows your children to see you exactly as you are, and promotes the deepest kind of connection. It is also a show of true self-confidence and self-love that you accept yourself as you are, in all of your humanness.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer...

i have a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. and that terrifies me to the point where i can barely function.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.