Vulnerability Quotes

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon

One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my face up, so it can kiss my skin." The Panopticon

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn

Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

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

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

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

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

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.

We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Sometimes, breaking down is the bravest thing you can do.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself

Vulnerability along with a sense of humility are the purest forms of strength.

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.

There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.

You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

True art comes from the anonymous self.

The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby.

Vulnerability lets in light.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.