563 Quotes About Vulnerability

Some people should not be allowed to see beyond your surface. Seeing your vulnerability is a privilege, not meant for everyone.

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.

I'd seen a couple of Claire's movies now. She was transparent,heartbreaking. I would be afraid to be so vulnerable. I'd spent thelast three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so Iwouldn't drip with blood every time I brushed up against something.She was naked, she peeled herself daily.

No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...”I wrote back telling Liza that her poems were bad and she ought to stop composing. Sometime later I saw her in another cafe, sitting at a long table, abloom and ablaze among a dozen young Russian poets. She kept her sapphire glance on me with a mocking and mysterious persistence.

What bends, can break.

Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence.

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.

People across the earth are aching to serve as your ambassadors in one form or another. Let them.

We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.