563 Quotes About Vulnerability

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 strange thing about Janice Joplin is that she could look incredibly vulnerable on stage. That is, until she had a mike in her hand and started to sing. Once she started singing she put her whole life into each and every song. It was a remarkable transformation.Each song was her life!

I’ve made myself vulnerableI’ve let myself care.I’ve opened my firmly closed heart.My safety is goneIt’s no longer thereMy protection is falling apart.Nobody promised Our hearts would be safeOr our bodies protected from harm. A moment can changeAll we think that we have,Hope will endure through the storm.Troubling a StarMadeleine L’Engle

It’s your crap that’s endearing. It’s the basis of any relationship, way beyond even the choice of who wins on to whom. It’s crap that sustains things. The mutual vulnerability that comes from knowing each other’s crap. How shallow would we be if you only felt things for people on account of their successes? How likely would that be to survive?

Threat is a mirror of security gaps. Cyber-threat is mainly a reflection of our weaknesses. An accurate vision of digital and behavioral gaps is crucial for a consistent cyber-resilience.

True safety was not in having armor. It was in vulnerability.

How fragile love is. How delicate and small in its first buds, when it’s just an idea, a wish filled with hope. It is so easy to turn away from it entirely and choose to live alone in your own private fear. I had one moment of courage, and it changed my life. I didn’t turn to love out of loneliness. Or out of habit. I let love change me.

I will not say I am naked when I am fully clothed. I will not say I am sorry when I am resentful.

Don’t let them mishandle your vulnerability twice.