563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Being an open and vulnerable doesn't mean you are weak..

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

If we’re wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn’t even reach where we truly live.

It is possible that some may use your vulnerability and rawness against you. Don't worry much. Instead put Plan B in place to combat their actions.

Remember how raw you were with your mother when you were a toddler? Now, remember the reaction that you received. Was it good, was it bad? Have you made any actions to resolve those feelings? Reflect on it.