Quotes About Vulnerability

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

I cry now as I write this. So lasting are the scars of the child who never feels worthy of love. So many cycles in my life of having to learn that I am indeed worthy of tenderness.

True safety was not in having armor. It was in vulnerability.

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

When neighbors ran into each other, they did not stop to chat but just nodded and hurried on. Everyone felt vulnerable, and no one wanted to say anything that would cause trouble. We

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Tears make you the villain and the unfeeling one, regardless of what you feel, simply because you can't produce them yourself. And whatever they say, I know women use them to get their own way:

Maybe I should have known better, but I was a girl, and longing for someone to want me, so back then, the force of his personality, how much he wanted me, was new to me, was the trick and the power; it was dazzling.

You can't just love bits of someone. All of me, why not take all of me----isn't that what the song says? I know exactly how bad Tony can be and well, if he can love me like he does, despite my faults, well... I can do the same for him.

He loves to communicate, so if you let him know it's safe to be honest, he will tell you what he really thinks and feels.

because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ...

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea

Heart of Glass

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

that there is no more terrible thing than to live and have one's being under the shadow of a man-eater

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

If Jesus himself prayed with "loud cries and tears" at times, then we can certainly feel free and unashamed to pour out our souls to God. I

God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart. I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

If you show goodwill and kindness toward those who cannot stand up for themselves, you set a tone of compassion and goodwill that permeates all.