Quotes About Vulnerability

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.