563 Quotes About Vulnerability

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

So how do I overcome my fear of vulnerability and intimacy?" "I don't think that ever goes away. I think that the goal is to just choose to tend to the garden of love and bliss, instead of trying to focus on how to remove the weeds of fear. There will always be weeds in a garden. Don't fixate on the weeds. Just tend to the flowers. Be your own source of love, comfort and bliss, and that will radiate. Never see yourself as someone who will lose love if she loses a man.

I hated doing NEW things because of their disruptive tendencies. I detested the vulnerability that often goes with stepping out of my comfort zone. That was until I discovered that NEW is an invitation to Never Ending Wonders. Now, I am eager to create or embrace the NEW and ride on the back of its vulnerability to push the frontiers and break the glass ceilings.

Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

I chose to put my vulnerability above my social image. I was going to either fail or succeed. But I sure as hell wasn't going to be complacent.

Turbo-charged with sectarian violence, anaemic rule of law and hefty reliance on foreign debts we cannot compete in the world by allowing outrageous racial inequalities to destroy our dreams, our hopes and our future.

This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.