Quotes About Vulnerability

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that's frightening.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover.

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.