Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

I'm not a Christian because I'm strong and have it all together. I'm a Christian because I'm weak and admit I need a Savior.

I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me...I am afraid of everything

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

He's very pretty. For a human." "He's very broken," said Magnus. "Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

He pulled loose the ribbons of her bonnet and tossed the garment onto the opposite seat. He held her head against his shoulder and rested his cheek on top of it. He had no idea if she needed to be gathered in or not. But he needed to gather. "Idiot," he said. "You precious idiot, Elizabeth.

She laughed rather self-consciously. I have never talked about this with anyone before, she said. He hunched his shoulder so that her head slipped against it. People so rarely talk about anything that matters, he said. We fill silences and so often live with a deeper silence and a greater loneliness.

Some instinct told her that this was usually done in darkness and with eyes tightly shut, that usually all the pleasure was hugged tightly to oneself, the pleasure-giver shut out. Even in her inexperience she sensed that lovers did not always love with eyes open and focused on each other's whenever it was feasible to do so.