563 Quotes About Vulnerability

I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores.

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

It’s only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved.

A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

I am a great believer in not pushing each other’s “buttons” just because we know where they are! That’s part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.

No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.