Quotes About Vulnerability

People are anxious to know the real you. Take the risk to let others into your world. You have the skills and knowledge to be an excellent communicator. Don't be afraid to confidently and genuinely engage those around you.

Only those you trust can betray you.

invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters. They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me.

Model the level of personal disclosure you want group members to reach.

habit of trusting breaks you badly

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

But I didn't want there to be any silences, out of which raw truths might tumble

In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

But that's what being an artist is — feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Girls secrets in the hands of boys is like Guns in the hands of gunsels

Lay aside dreams of greatness and embrace dreams of dependency

Love is a rocky ride for whom don't know how to be in love

Ich nannte das Glashaus

Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.

There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even dangerous.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

A man can of course hold public office, and many a man does hold public office, and lead a public career of a sort, even if there are other men who possess secrets about him which he cannot afford to have divulged. But no man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.