563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Yeah,' said Ken. 'I wish there was some sort of teddy bear we could hug after moments of risk. Gets scary.''Arm yourself with a book. Throw it in your bag. It's the surest way of knowing: it's normal not to be,' said Mr. Lucas.

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

If all you have seen is the best of me,I'm scared you won't like the rest of me.I'm scared you'll love me only ten questions later.Or worse, walk away disgusted after a thousand greater.

I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability. I didn't want Evan to think I needed protecting. I pulled back my torment and let the numb blanket envelop me, pushing away the stirred memories, the noise of the crowd, and the trembling that still lay beneath the surface. I stared at the flames licking at the darkness and everything was lost as I sank deeper into nothingness.

There’d never been anyone who could knife him so with a momentary word, and then speak the wound away in the very next moment. If all those little boyhood heartbreaks had been supposed to make him ready for this, Demane wasn’t.

Part of the truth is I love the deer from a distance,the same way a lot of people love me.I just don't want them close-up staring directlyinto my eyes before they knock me down.

Control is an illusion—a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.

I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

The craft of acting dismantles the realms of private personal space and shows human nature for what it truly is; simple and fragile