Quotes about Vulnerability
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
- Henri Nouwen
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
- Henri Nouwen
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
- Vincent Van Gogh
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
- Mother Angelica
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
- Henri Nouwen
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
- Mother Teresa
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
- Marianne Williamson
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
- Beth Moore
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
- Kerry Washington
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
- Joseph Addison
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
- Joseph Heller