Intimacy And Vulnerability Quotes

#1. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#2. Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.

Megan McKenna

#3. The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

Brene Brown

#4. I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

Vavasor Powell

#5. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance...

David Whyte

#6. You have to concentrate on the swing.

Miguel Cabrera

#7. It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

Florence Welch

#8. In all things in life, boldness is rewarded, and cowardice is ignored.

Aziz Gazipura

#9. We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.

Robin Rumi

#10. While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with others as it burros its way further into our minds.

Tyler Braun

#11. At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Rick Santelli

#12. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#13. Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.

Belden C. Lane

#14. There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Brene Brown

#15. If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor, in which, i can seek refuge.

Jaeda DeWalt

#16. Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

Jeffrey Fry

#17. I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.

Al Feldstein

#18. I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesnt exist. Maybe we all do. Maybe we're all chasing unicorns.

Josh James Riebock

#19. The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Charles B. Rangel

#20. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

Danielle Cormack

#21. You don't have to feel love to give it.

Morag Prunty

#22. When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

David D. Burns

#23. There'd never been anyone who could knife him so with a momentary word, and then speak the wound away in the very next moment. If all those little boyhood heartbreaks had been supposed to make him ready for this, Demane wasn't.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#24. 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Max Barry

#25. Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

Abdu'l- Baha

#26. Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

Rick Warren

#27. Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
( ... ) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

Dossie Easton

#28. Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.

Dossie Easton

#29. As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Raekwon

#30. I genuinely believe that our awkwardness and awkward moments are invitations to know more deeply the grace of God. Awkwardness is an invitation to vulnerability, and vulnerability is where intimacy and connection are found.

Sammy Rhodes