Quotes about Vulnerability
Our lives are inextricably bound up with the lives of other people. So much depends on things we can never control.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
How do we develop the courage to walk in the dark if we are never asked to practice?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
To lie flat on the ground with the breath knocked out of you is to find a solid resting place. This is as low as you can go. You told yourself you would die if it ever came to this, but here you are. You cannot help yourself and yet you live.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
An unguarded face is a deep well; you don't go there casually, without ropes or lamps.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
More to the point, there are times when dancing on tables is the most authentic prayer in reach, even if it pocks the table and clears the room.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As enjoyable as it could be to spend a couple of hours on Sunday morning with people who were at their best, it was also possible to see the strain in some of the smiles, the effort it took to present the most positive, most faithful version of the self.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.
— George W. Bush
Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'
— Tarana Burke
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
— Ronald Reagan
Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.
— Dinesh D'Souza