563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

Scars remind us that we were once naïve, vulnerable, or too kind. Our vulnerability was to the point that we were laid at the mercy of another person. And that individual measured our vulnerability and equaled it to their own gain. They decided to harm us instead of saving us.

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

Мама — это был мой мир. Моя планета. Если у меня даже что-то болело, возьмешься за мамину руку, и болеть перестает. Ночью я всегда спала рядышком с ней, чем теснее, тем меньше страха. Если мама близко, кажется, что все у нас, как раньше дома было. Закроешь глаза — никакой войны нет. Мама только не любила разговаривать о смерти. А я все время расспрашивала…

It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know.

Vulnerable attempts of wanting to understand myself and the world around me drove me mad. My ego wanted to run too frequently to protect its vanity, but the angel on my shoulder, my sensitive core, suggested self-awareness to the devil.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.