Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Vulnerability Quotes
EmotionFearHappinessRiskVulnerability As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.
FragilityTalentVulnerability Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
CautionLeadershipResponsibilityTrustVulnerability You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
EmotionEmotional SuppressionVulnerability Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
AuthenticityCouragePersonal GrowthSelf-ExpressionVulnerability I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.
Human NatureImperfectionPeer PressureSelf-awarenessVulnerability My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
ConnectionExternal OpinionSelf-PerceptionVulnerability When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
AuthenticityConnectionTimeTrustVulnerability Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
Emotional ExpressionGender RelationsLoveRespectVulnerability I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
AnxietyEmotionMental HealthVulnerability I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
AvoidanceCautionDangerInnocenceVulnerability The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Human ConnectionLife ExperienceLoveUniversal NeedsVulnerability No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.
EmotionHumanityStrengthVulnerabilityWeakness I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.
GrowthPatienceRelationshipsSelf-DiscoveryVulnerability I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye.
ControlInfluencePowerSelf-PerceptionVulnerability The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
CautionHonestyVulnerability A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Freedom of SpeechLibertyOppressionVulnerability If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
CommunicationEmotional ExpressionLoveMusicVulnerability Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.
DedicationStruggleVulnerabilityWriting There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ChallengeConsequenceInevitabilityPreparednessVulnerability There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
EnduranceMental StrengthPhysical LimitsResilienceVulnerability You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
Communication ChallengesEmotional BarriersSelf-ImprovementTrust IssuesVulnerability We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
ChildhoodFearPredationSafetyVulnerability When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.
