563 Quotes About Vulnerability

The status-quo habits for 'grandfathered' vulnerabilities do not legitimize them.

I love you so much and I don't understand why you don't love me."I said, "I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody." Which was true. I wasn't really willing to be vulnerable with anybody at that point. I had felt too much vulnerability too young. I didn't want to do it anymore.

The message given males is that to be honest is to be “soft.” The ability to be dishonest and indifferent to the consequences makes a male hard, separates the men from the boys.

Vulnerability should enhance our relationships, not take advantage of them.

As soon as you remove the sense of finitude and vulnerability, you remove the vitality of any possible love relationship. (43)

Something unspoken can't be known. It becomes a private asphyxiation, a see stuck in the throat of an individual body staining for the oxygen of God's love.

We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there's a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.

The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing. Acting

Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. That's because the path of the mystic reconciles contradictory propositions (such as harrowing sorrow and radical amazement) and blesses us with an extended capacity to sit with ambiguity, to treasure vulnerability, to celebrate paradox as the highest truth.