Quotes about Vulnerability
Who are you and what breaks your heart?
— Andy Stanley
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
— Henri Nouwen
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
— Pema Chodron
It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.
— Jennifer Aniston
Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
— Jennifer Lopez
but whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.
— Jennifer Lopez
It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place
— Jennifer Lopez
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life, he answered; and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
— Emily Bronte
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
— Erica Jong
Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself
— Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.
— Erica Jong
We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.
— Sheryl Sandberg