Quotes About Vulnerability

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

i'm a fool in so many ways.

Everytime I try to fly, I fall Without my wings, I feel so small; I guess I need you baby And Everytime I see you in my dreams, I'll see your face, It's haunting me, I guess I need you baby

Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.

And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.

Did you have sex with me because you wanted to or because you wanted something from me?" "Both," she said immediately, and I know now that she was telling the truth, that she was done lying to me, although at that moment I wasn't yet ready to believe her. "I don't believe you," I said.

Already, I loved my aunt, and I believe she already loved me. This seems as good a time as any to say that. To love someone is to eventually create the conditions for betraying them. This seems as good a time as any to say that, too. Because this is a story about the things my aunt taught me, and that is one of the things she taught me.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

But when the men went ashore for firewood, the wind veered and breakers began rolling into the bay. Captain and crew had to strip and shove the boat out to sea : 'Oh! It was cold. And the sight of all hands naked was enough to make a cat laugh. We were red as lobsters and our teeth chattering.

You should make someone a wonderful husband." Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes. "I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested?

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

The fact that the brain develops sequentially—and also so rapidly in the first years of life—explains why extremely young children are at such great risk of suffering lasting effects of trauma: their brains are still developing. The same miraculous plasticity that allows young brains to quickly learn love and language, unfortunately, also makes them highly susceptible to negative experiences as well.

can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

The protective effects of social connection were present even for individuals who were at higher risk for depression as a result of genetic vulnerability or early life trauma.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World Vivek H. Murthy, M.D.

Isolated and disconnected, we are vulnerable. In community, we can protect one another, cooperatively hunt and gather, share with the dependents of our family, our clan. Relational glue keeps our species alive, and love is relational superglue