Quotes About Vulnerability

Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.

Ä°tibar k?r?lgan bir ÅŸeydir; bir ince çatlak onu paramparça eder.

Güç sahibi olmak, onu yitirmekten sürekli korkmak demekti.

This is what love does to you, Jane thought. It makes you afraid, not brave. It gives the world carnivorous teeth that are poised at any moment to rip away chunks of your life.

I never had to worry about anyone else before, about what I could lose. I didn't know it would scare me so much. Now I've got this big exposed Achilles heel, and all I can think about is how to protect it.

Yine kilerdeki gizli yerinde saklanm??t?. Ama küçük bir çocuk deÄŸildi ÅŸimdi; tam on dört ya??ndayd? ve bu küçük deliÄŸe art?k zar zor s???yordu. Eskiden oynad?klar? o neÅŸeli bir saklambaç oyunlar?ndan çok farkl?, çok daha korkunç bir sebeple girmiÅŸti buraya. Yakalan?rsa öleceÄŸini biliyordu... Sayfa: 1

Çocuk sahibi olmak, kalbinizin hep dünyan?n insaf?na kalmas? anlam?na geliyordu.

Having a child meant your heart was always at the world's mercy.

don't fall for a man who'll break your heart

You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean literally . Kerplunk.

Maybe I don't really know what love feels like. Because I've been too busy fighting it. Just as I fight everything else that might hurt me.

You can sit down with that fearful child inside and be gentle with him or her. You might say something like this: "Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.

We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.

Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds.

I can be on the lookout for signs of the various common boxes, for example—ways I'm feeling better-than, or entitled, or worse-than, or anxious to be seen-as. "Then when I feel stuck in the box and desire to get out, I can find an out-of-the-box place—some place within me that is unencumbered by these boxes.

When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed anybody's help in any way But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured And now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me?

You have single men, moving from parish to parish, with no family of their own. It was a formula for disaster." Like

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

Love makes me naked; Propinquity's a harsh master; O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!

Where has he gone, my meadow mouse, My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm? -- To run under the hawk's wing, Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree, To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat. (from The Meadow Mouse )

He couldn't handle men. All his life he had run away from humans and what they represented to him. He was like a frightened child when men closed in on him.

Our senses are our windows to the world, and sometimes the wind blows through them and disturbs everything within us. Some of us leave our windows open all the time, allowing the sights and sounds of the world to invade us, penetrate us, and expose our sad, troubled selves.

You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to embrace him or her tenderly, like a big brother or a big sister.