Quotes About Vulnerability

Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world, where it got battered by storms of ill will and bad circumstances and demons of your own or of other people. Love didn't stand a chance.

Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

Nothing is more intimate than someone who knows your heart. Nothing is more dangerous than someone who knows your heart. Holding someone's heart like that is power.

In terms of power, beauty is like glass, isn't it? Shining, but transparent and easily marred.

Secrets have a shelf life.

Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives your some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Then again, could you go through a colonoscopy with someone and not be wedded for life?

I learned something about truth—that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.

You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.

Writers are cut open on the page.

Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself

We often fail to see that there is an invisible wall in a relationship - Cord 10, In Between Us!

The thing about knowing you're broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.

The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.

Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.