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Quotes About Vulnerability

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
~ Tom Petty
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.
~ Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
~ E. W. Howe
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
~ Gail Jones, Dreams Of Speaking
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
~ Robert Genn
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
~ Romany Malco
without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily
~ Kay Hooper
Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.
~ Michael Rapaport
Never expect people to understand, respect or love you, they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
~ Julia Roberts
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
~ Margaret Kennedy
Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
~ Agnes de Mille
I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over
~ Drake
I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me
~ Freddie Mercury
Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee
~ Tommy Lee
The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.
~ India.Arie
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
~ Alex Pettyfer
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
~ Jeff Bridges
Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.
~ e. e. cummings