Quotes about Vulnerability

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I think there's strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of 'Oh, I've done this' but I'm still living that existence.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.