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A Quote by Janna Wissler on love, desire, and vulnerability

It can feel humiliating, in our culture of "self-love," to be ravaged with desire for another.But what feels so impossible is that it simply hurts. The cells cry. The sex aches. The heart does indeed...

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A Quote by John Welwood on love, vulnerability, invincibility, calling, and...

As earthly creatures continually subject to relative disappointment, pain, and loss, we cannot avoid feeling vulnerable.  Yet as an open channel through which great love enters this world, the human...

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A Quote by This American Life on vulnerable, vulnerability, authentic,...

...being a good actor is the exact emotional opposite of what it takes to be a successful inmate. Rather than close off all feeling and look tough, you have to open your vulnerable self up, and...

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A Quote by Starhawk on shame, truth, vulnerability, story, and starhawk

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it. Source:  Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority,...

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A Quote by Georgiann Baldino on inner peace, vulnerability, eternity, and...

The trip was about being vulnerable, but not afraid; about opening himself up like a tin can and exposing his guts to the wind and the sky, and somehow finding a way to go beyond his limits. If he...

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A Quote by Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk on spirituality, love, commitment,...

The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love...

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A Quote by Bruce Lee on teacher, sensitive, mind, adapt, student, pointer,...

A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his...

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A Quote by Dr Joyce Brothers on love, self-revelation, vulnerability, daring,...

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable....

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A Quote by Madeleine L'Engle on growing up, grown-ups, vulnerability, and adults

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.  But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. Source:  Walking On...

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A Quote by Herbert O'Driscoll on grandmother, child, ireland, churchyard,...

When I was a child, my grandmother died and was buried in the churchyard in Castlecomer, Ireland.  The following year I went there on holiday.  One day we drove to visit relatives, I in the back seat...

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