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

  Brené Brown

  Risk, Connections, Want

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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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• 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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• Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

  Shemar Moore

  Inspirational, Strength, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

  Herbie Hancock

  Wall, Mean, People

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Children, Our World, Civilization

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2015

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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