Quotes about Vulnerability

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

All of those who are willing to face the darkness bring the best of themselves to the light, for the world.

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you. Why? Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.

All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is a City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.