Quotes about Vulnerability
His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.
- John Updike
She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ...
- John Updike
Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch
- John Updike
...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.
- Sheila Walsh
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
- Timothy Keller
Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.
- Maura Tierney
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
- Pema Chodron
Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
- Andrew Jackson
Fear is trusting in your own power.
- Marianne Williamson
The man without emotions is the one to fear.
- Frank Herbert
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
In Yellowstone National Park, human-imposed stability thwarted for many years the natural process of small fires, which regularly clean out brush and dead trees. The result was a fragile equilibrium completely vulnerable to the cataclysm of fire that destroyed large areas of the park. The attempt to manage for stability and to enforce an unnatural equilibrium always leads to far-reaching destruction. The
- Margaret J. Wheatley