563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal) were extinguished. Expectation of hurtful treatment by others or one's own failed capabilities can stubbornly persist despite overwhelming evidence that such is no longer the case.

When you see through a defense mechanism, you don’t stop at the intimidating behavior but go right on into the underlying misperception about life and through that to the path back to harmony. When you see through people’s fear-based actions, motives, and secrets, you’re really aiming for their sweet vulnerability, inner beauty, and magnificence—and you find their soul.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye

We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.

Love Request: Isn't this all we request from love? A brave, vulnerable and sincere exposure, To be candidly seen in all our faultsBlemishes, quirks and flaws Yet still be so implicitly lovedCherished, accepted And most of all, Wanted

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

Vulnerability isn’t weakness. It's strength. Love that kooky, growing person you are and accept him/her.

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.