Quotes About Vulnerability

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

In a blank wall you may well fear the blindness which sees through you and sees you through.

Nefes almaya devam etmeden önce sebepler bulmak gerekseydi, dünya bir yumurta gibi ç?plak olurdu.

The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.

More than anything I am afraid of fear itself overwhelming me. One must use any bit of folly to control it.

Cu cât mai mare este fragilitatea cuiva,cu atat mai mare va fi si precau?ia lui ?i cu atât mai crâncen? ?i de neclintit severitatea pe care o va arbora în fa?a avansurilor celuilalt.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

In vulnerability one practices the art of friendship, the art of the heart. It is an essential spiritual practice.

Ou bien, est-ce pour la combler...et ensuite la séduire, la réduire à une misère plus grande encore?

Tout à coup, Florentine entra dans la réalité. La vague d'ivresses l'abandonnait. Elle la rejetait durement.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I Love You. It was superior, he believed, to show love those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both.

Love me? You don't even know me," A.J. says. "Little girl, you shouldn't go throwing around your love so easily.

Why was it so hard for him to say he loved her even when she said it to him? He knew he loved her. People who felt far less for each other said "love" all the time, and it didn't mean a thing. And maybe that was the point. He more than loved Sadie Green. There needed to be another word for it.

To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back—I know you won't hurt me, even though you can. It is the dog putting its mouth around your hand and never biting down. To play requires trust and love.