563 Quotes About Vulnerability

The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully, or conversely, as misers and complainers, reluctant and fearful, always at the gates of existence, but never bravely and completely attempting to enter, never wanting to risk ourselves, never walking fully through the door.

We need to rebrand vulnerability and emotion. A vulnerable man is not some weird anomaly. He is open to being hurt, but also open to love.

there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Sophie(female): This life is not worth living without the people that make us want to tear down those walls. The thrill of vulnerability the danger of opening your heart. It makes us feel alive.Parker(female): I feel alive when I'm jumping down a building.Sophie(female): Maybe that's why they call it 'Falling in love

If you cannot handleThe darkest pieces of herDon't ever dare to sayThat you love her!

Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.