Vulnerable Quotes

• To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Godly, Romance

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

  Criss Jami

  Courage, Honesty, Humility

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, True Love

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• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiring, Running, Stories

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Maturity, Alive

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

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• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Running, Courage

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• Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

  Stephen Russell

  Mean, People, Boots

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Taken, Resentment

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• What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.

  Moby

  Expression, Emotion, Genuine

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

  Brené Brown

  Beautiful, Vulnerability

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• Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Light, Brave

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.57, Penguin

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• Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

  Theodore Roethke

  Love, Relationship, Vulnerability

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.177, Anchor

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• You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Next Day, People, Awkward

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• Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

  Debbie Ford

  Voice, Risk, Comfort

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• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Jesus, Risk, Asks

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.30, Thomas Nelson

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• Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.

  Dossie Easton

  Scary, Skins, Stuff

  Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Long, Hatred

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.54, Metropolitan Books

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

  Brené Brown

  Risk, Connections, Want

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• Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Romantic, Women

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity.
  Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Humanity, Acting, Weakness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 20, 2012

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