Quotes about Vulnerability
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
- Audre Lorde
If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
- Audre Lorde
Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.
- Audre Lorde
Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.
- Audre Lorde
She taught me that women who want without needing are expensive and sometimes wasteful, but women who need without wanting are dangerous — they suck you in and pretend not to notice.
- Audre Lorde
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
- Ayn Rand
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
- Ayn Rand
I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...I want you like an animal...or a whore.
- Ayn Rand
In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?
- Stephen Hawking
Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
- Beth Moore
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
- Brennan Manning