Quotes About Vulnerability

It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce. 'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.

I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.