Quotes About Vulnerability

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

I had created a fantasy that seeing into people would be sweetness and love. Maybe there was some of that, but there was a lot more fear, and jealousy, and anger, and every bad thing I could imagine.

somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

When your weakness are your strengths, you cry.

When your weaknesses are your strengths, you cry. For crying disconcerts people, they don't know how to handle it; they are expecting violence and suddenly it vanishes in a pool of tears.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

Will was worth at least a few tears from a grizzled old wreck like himself, he thought, and made no move to wipe them away.

In the time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore. "You're faking," she said. "No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.

Je weet toch wel wat er gebeurt als je gaten in de bodem van een schip maakt, hè? Dan heeft zo'n schip de neiging om te zinken. - Stig

We do not need to be mighty when we are faced with weakness." - Ezekyle Abaddon