Quotes about Vulnerability

Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

They ask three simple questions: Who is going to be at special risk when this happens? What can we do to help? And who shall we send?

3: I can't wear my heart on my sleeve or it'll be crushed.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Gradually I felt flooded by a powerful sense of communion with the people passing by. Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed. We trustingly went to and fro beneath the sky, which had nothing good in store for us.

We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.