Quotes About Vulnerability

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

But whatever gives power is also potentially dangerous. What can make others anxious is a potentially destructive power; and if it can harm others it might also destroy its owner.

A woman can only go so far on strength alone; at some point, she needed tenderness.

Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly.

Courage is fear on its knees.

Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.

A bald man felt the sun's fierce rays Scorch his defenseless head, In haste to shun the noontide blaze Beneath a palm he fled: Prone as he lay, a heavy fruit Crashed through his drowsy brain: Whom fate has sworn to persecute Finds every refuge vain.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Kendimi bir ona gösterece?im. Bir ona gösterece?im, çünkü, bir yerden y?rt?lmam?? bir gizlili?in de tad? yoktur.

Bir ona gösterece?im, çünkü, bir yerinden y?rt?lmam?? bir gizlili?in de tad? yoktur.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

As a child crawls up into his daddy's lap, we too can climb into our Father's arms and tell Him all that is in our hearts.

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.

What every man longs to be is also his greatest fear.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world's poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they're going to suffer the most from it.

12-27-10 Palace Hotel, San Francisco- Over Christmas In bed, lights out: O: 'Oh, oh, oh...!' I: 'What was that for?' O: 'I found your fifth rib.' In the middle of the night: 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?' O whispers.

So why don't we automatically place discipleship at the center of every ministry? Perhaps certain words put people off: influence, vision, submission, accountability, vulnerability, confession, study, sacrifice, and discipline.

It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.