Quotes About Vulnerability

Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Take pictures of what you fear.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

You cannot be brave without fear.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Fear attracts attack.

Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.