Quotes About Vulnerability

She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face, and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears.

Hiding your true nature is a kind of voluntary death.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

What boots it at one gate to make defense,And at another to let in the foe?

If you're depressed on top of that, and you probably are, you build those walls thicker, stronger, and higher because being let down is the only feasible outcome of a relationship.

God is strong enough to overcome his enemies by becoming vulnerable, transparent, and humble—the only hope, in fact, for turning enmity into friendship.

To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.

It's time to chip away the plaster, pull down the ask, peel off the bandages, and allow the miracle of life to shine brightly.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.

Once we love, we are vulnerable: there is no such things as loving while being ready to consider whether to love, just like that. And the loves that may hurt the least are not the best loves. When we love we accept the dangers of injury and loss.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

All the time he had spent in institutions, sheltered from the world, when in reality there was no greater threat to him than the institutions themselves.

To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.

Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

the tiger is a bellwether--one of thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure. The current moment is proof of our struggle to evolve (perhaps "mature" is a better word) beyond outmoded fears and attitudes, to face the fact that nature is neither our enemy nor our slave.

I never made any friends, even as a kid. Not the kind you can open your heart to." "It's not that hard." "I hope not. Because I'm going to be a different person. I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people.