563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.

Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

If she wanted this man to trust her, to open up to her, she would have to strip every last piece of herself away, like he had been stripped. That's the only way he would let her in. The challenge seemed insurmountable, maybe because he seemed insurmountable.

i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.