Quotes About Vulnerability

Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

I guess the real question is, Why not me? Why did I think I was going to get through this life without sorrow, pain, or grief?

and that dumbass deer—sorry, that beautiful creature of God—that thing's character was drawn within the limitations of a non-sentient brain. It stood there, unmoving, as the car closed the last fifty feet on it; it just hunched there, watching Death come hurtling at it, staring at the car like, well, like exactly what it was, there's a goddamn good reason for that cliché, so maybe it was fitting that the first thing that hit the deer was the headlight.

The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.

That is no doubt the disadvantage of having intelligent friends. They see straight through you.

the best poems are those in which the author avoids concealment and obfuscation, and the truth of that person, eccentric, vulnerable, and brilliant, bears itself out in a sound heretofore unheard.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.

Consider, for example, the title of a prominent book on the subject: The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives.22 Leftists cleverly have it both ways with this line of reasoning: men and women aren't that different biologically, but men are evil anyway.

David [Foster Wallace] is a Cosmopolitan subscriber; he says reading 'I've Cheated - Should I Tell?' a bunch of times a year is 'fundamentally soothing to the nervous system.

It's dark now. But they feel each others' breath. And they know all they need to know. They kiss. And they feel each others' tears on their cheeks. And if there had been anybody left to see them, then they would look like normal lovers, caressing each others' faces, bodies close together, eyes closed, oblivious to the world around them. Because that is how life goes on. Like that.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

One question you never want to ask God is, 'What's wrong with me - because He'll tell you.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.