Vulnerable Quotes

“Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.”
― Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You

“If you truly love someone, then love them right in the places they feel most unsure and most vulnerable.
And that';s how you help them love themselves.”
― Wordions

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”
― A.C. Grayling

“Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can be worked out in the development of unhealthy denial, workaholism, perfectionism, chameleon-type behavior, and sadly, even revictimization... When we live in denial or present a false self out of fear... we will do anything to be accepted by people... When we begin to tell the truth about what happened to us we also begin the process of turning about from this type of idolatry... When we begin to tear away our layers of illegitimate shame... When our own vision is not distorted by our shame we can discern what was our responsibility and what wasn't.”
― Wendy Mahill, Growing a Passionate Heart

“Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.”
― Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night

“I see you.
I see your strength and courage, your hesitations and fears.
I see the way you love others, and your struggle to love yourself.
I see how hard you work to grow, and your dedication to heal.
I see your vulnerable humanity, and your transcendent divinity.
I see you, and I love what I see.”
― Scott Stabile

“Don't try to be something for everyone, just be everything for someone. Remain vulnerable. Because you very honest with yourself when you feel vulnerable. and this like self-awareness that comes out of that vulnerability is often very very helpful in your decisionmaking process. So, be vulnerable, remember where your priorities are and keep that in mind. And open your legs))”
― Leandra Medine

“Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“His gaze, lowered toward the ground, slowly, leisurely drifts up, until it slams into mine with the heavy force of steel against steel. The green is back, emerald flames dancing behind clouds of black and grey. And with just that single look, his head slightly dipped, I know... Here, right now, I’m the one with all the power.”
― T.L. Martin, Touched by Death

“The morning’s splendour is conceived in the dark womb of night. A truth… we all know and believe. Yet a truth, that is most difficult to live and endure when one is in that dark womb. Alive and breathing… but inert, vulnerable, and ‘in waiting’. Witnessing but not conscious, wakeful but not awake. (Page 2)”
― Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“Sure, you can break a man. Bend his will, even, but be careful with the ones that break easily. Those are the ones you have to keep a close eye on. Those are the ones that play possum and hide in the shadows. Just waiting for their time to strike! That's when you're most vulnerable. When you're surrounded by friends.”
― Joe Reyes, Aftermath

“Only the corrupt or the stupid person falls for the open bribe, there are other methods, more insidious, harder to detect, by which the same results are achieved. The favor granted, the casual present bestowed on the unwary, the conferring of benefits that make a decent human being feel indebted. Of all the warnings the one to remain freshest in my memory is Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”
― Emilie Loring

“Vulnerability has a strength of its own.”
― William Zinsser

“You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.”
― Lady Diana, The Mirage of Love

“Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“She remembers rehearsals. Wrong notes turning to right ones, dissonance becoming harmony. She remembers “O Holy Night” sounding so perfect, in the end, her voice wrapping itself around Jonah’s like they were created just for this. She remembers his smile at her from across their shared mic.
She remembers getting asked to reprise her duet with Jonah a year later. Just after everything happened with Luke. But then Mr. Boyden took her aside. Told her that Jonah had backed out. He’d said he was too busy for extra rehearsals, but she knew: it was because of her. She saw it in Jonah’s face, in the way he avoided her eyes. She saw it in everyone else’s faces too. She was a bullet he’d just dodged.
She remembers standing up for the solo she was given instead—her last performance before she quit choir. She remembers opening her mouth, nothing coming out. She’d cleared her throat, tried again. Her voice emerged, but all wrong: small and shaky and sharp. With everyone looking at her, with the rumors still swirling, she felt exposed. She felt small and shaky and sharp. Vulnerable, but made of angles and thorns.”
― Kathryn Holmes

“To have with somebody relationship or to be friends or something, you must make him nerves to feel nerves, then you should make him to feel comfortable - I got you, you just believed in this, you don't need to make him nerves. That's a joke!
You must make him vulnerable so to possess him.”
― Deyth Banger

“If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Did he bleed?
Well, of course. He took on a human form. That always makes them vulnerable, becoming human.”
― Eliza Victoria, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories

“He concluded in the last scene that we are given two choices in life. We can allow ourselves to love and care for others, which makes us vulnerable to their sickness, death, or rejection. Or we can protect ourselves by refusing to love. Lewis decided that it is better to feel and to suffer than to go through life isolated, insulated, and lonely.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles”
― Sunday Adelaja

“People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen" Acrobats in a Park "at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Once we get predictable, we get vulnerable.”
― Deyth Banger

“If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am a great believer in not pushing each other’s “buttons” just because we know where they are! That’s part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

“Society’s vampires are drawn like the predators to the vulnerable prey.”
― Steven Redhead, The Solution

“Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life