Quotes About Vulnerability

one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly.

How humiliating it is to encounter the fearful side of your psyche only to succumb like a blithering fool. My embarrassment at not being able to heal myself truly devastating.

Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so utterly mine - was the most beautiful thing I ever expected to see in my life.

Don't pull away from me like I disgust you. You'll break my heart. - Nico

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.

I am looking back to when I was a girl; now my body's a flash of poison on the floor.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

In my imagination you're waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.

He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

Love is fragile and rare and cannot live long in open air.

She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly—to fully know and be fully known by another—we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

Quem banca o Carneiro, e não o homem, a Onça chega por trás e come.

Son todos vulnerables. Pero tú más que nadie, mi niño, porque te pasarás la vida absorbiendo el dolor de los demás.

Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.

If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi