Quotes About Vulnerability

Marriage." is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging.

When you share your weaknesses, your hard times, and your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go. 'So you can become the best version of you.

When a man loves a woman she becomes his weakness. When a woman truly loves a man he becomes her strength.

Life may not be pretty. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are without judgement, it's really beautiful.

Life may not be pretty. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are without judgement, it's really beautiful.

I am not perfect. I say stupid things. I laugh when I'm not suppose to. I have scars left by people who did me wrong. I'm a little crazy and probably won't change. But I make one promise. That if I love you, I do it with a full heart.

I'm emotionally weak, but psychically smiling. I want to be loved but can't be loved. I try to feel special, but realize I'm just one out of many. I cry about every little obstacle and disappointment. But hey I'm fine

Your empty promises.... Are the moments I had to pretend that I was strong and unbreakable while my heart was aching inside.

If you cannot get rid of the skeleton in the closet- you may as well take it out and make it dance.

Jung observed that everyone has a pathological secret, something so scary, so shameful perhaps, so humiliating, that one will protect it nearly any cost.

In your relationships you sacrificed your autonomy to gain security and wound up with neither.")

If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.

If you want to cure a neurosis, you have to risk something."2

My Shadow was not evil; it was the defense against being myself, my own—apparently risky, apparently too costly—self.

for what we have most to share with them is not our learning or our techniques, but rather who we have become and what darkness we have faced in the world and in ourselves.

Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not make you a baby, no matter what anyone says. There are times when people feel so bad that they can't express their feelings in words. At those times, crying helps.

Being in love made you especially vulnerable.

There are some people," she said, smiling at him, "whose weaknesses seem to be strength, instead of weakness.

He felt a very great tenderness, such as one feels with a beautiful child, and with it the same selfish unreasonable urge to protect it from all the things it does not know yet, not because of saving it hurt, but to keep it beautiful.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

they were yung and easily freudened..

He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. (...) He wanted to cry.