Vulnerable Quotes

842 Vulnerable quotes by 685 unique authors

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very… — Ravi Zacharias
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was… — Rabih Alameddine
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. — Richard Dawkins
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your… — Brian Weiss
Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie. — Sophie Kinsella
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded… — Andrew Vachss
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we… — David Levithan
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges… — Henri Nouwen
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to… — Keith Ablow
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. — Lisa Kleypas
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. — Leo Buscaglia
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her… — Nalini Singh
Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. — Simone Elkeles
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable… — Margaret Thatcher
Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt… — Leif Enger
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are… — Antonio Damasio
There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in… — Vicki Pettersson
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?"… — Stephenie Meyer
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… — Cecelia Ahern
And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd… — Megan McCafferty
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… — BrenÃ© Brown
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not… — Robert Cormier
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have… — Alexandra Adornetto
Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in… — Gladys Taber
And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything. — Christine Feehan

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