{"quotes":[{"text":"If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["god","identity","kneeling","made","made-of","personhood","self-analysis","self-discovery","stand","standing","submission","transparency","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":4939,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It would be nice if the story ended differently - if he had burst into tears and professed his love for me; if he had said the same three words back and hugged me; if he had given it thought and then asked if we could try a relationship. But you know what? I said those three words to a boy who didn’t love me back, at least not in that way. He casually dropped a “love you” later on, and in a platonic ‘you have impacted my life’ way, he was telling the truth. But I knew. He had given it thought, and we were not on the same page. I built up all this courage to say “I love you” for the very first time, and I said those words to a person that couldn’t reciprocate them. But guess what? I don’t regret any of it.","author":"Stephen Lovegrove","tags":["courage","i-love-you","love","love","personal-growth","regret","relationship","risk","self-help","vulnerability"],"id":7925,"author_id":"Stephen+Lovegrove"},{"text":"We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["humility","joy","kindness","kindness","love","suffering","vulnerability"],"id":10807,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["anguish","caring","compassion","death","grief","grief-and-loss","love","loving","meaning-of-life","mourning","quotable","sacrifice","vulnerability"],"id":10944,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with their own property. In reality, deciding for ourselves is the only way we can ever have true love, for then we are giving freely.","author":"Henry Cloud","tags":["choices","control","controlling-others","controlling-people","decisions","manipulative-people","selfish","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":11713,"author_id":"Henry+Cloud"},{"text":"A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["callousness","feeling","vulnerability"],"id":11766,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"When I'm triggered, I think, 'This will last forever' or 'What if this lasts forever?' I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, 'It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you'? My power lies in these choices.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["choice","emotional-healing","emotional-triggers","emotions","healing","healing-the-past","mind","pain","ptsd","self-healing","self-love","self-soothing","suffering","vulnerability"],"id":11872,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it strength.Real strength isn't about building walls. Real strength is about staying open, no matter what. It's about taking life—with all the pleasures that fade and all the pain that sticks around for too long—and not shutting down, not closing down, not building up those walls.Resilience isn't hard, impenetrable, iron. Resilience is flexible, soft, warm. Stay strong. The real kind of strong. Don't let your automatic mind reflexes make you jump away from pain and towards pleasure. Make choices. See clearly. And never, ever, stop feeling.Don't go numb. The world, even with all its horror, is too beautiful to miss.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["emotions","feeling","feelings","healing","mess","self-love","self-protection","strength","strong","vulnerability"],"id":12851,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["acceptance","healing","self-love","self-support","vulnerability"],"id":13647,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.","author":"David Abram","tags":["nature","vulnerability"],"id":17435,"author_id":"David+Abram"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":278,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}