563 Quotes About Vulnerability

A kiss is more than a kiss.If you have my lips, you have my thoughts,My presence, questions, lessons I was taught.That in my closed-eyed kisses with you, Contained all my art, my lonely, my childhood too.A kiss, I fear, is more than a kiss.

Dried leaves that stomp on other dried leaves--This is man.Snails pretending to have tortoise shells-- This is man.We're so good, aren't we, at saying we're not cold-- Assuring others even as we shiver and turn blue.But I know you're lying, you might as well fold, Because I'm pretending to be pink while shivering, too.

But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.

It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!

You don't have to stay strong all the time. Let it come up. Feel the sorrow, and then, let it go. You won't break, I promise.

No one else will ever know exactly what you are going through,except you. It is your sacred responsibility to accept and honor what you are feeling, and why. Your feelings will honor you back. They will leave you with a gift, of healing, of new and unknown strengths.

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

Apologies require vulnerability.

Every person will battle with false pride, a sense of loss and aloneness, and feeling defenseless in a world of endless trauma and tragedy.