Quotes About Vulnerability

I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you.

Yes, that's why I'm so frightened, you make me feel strong—

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, Tearing up inside of me, Every day, every hour, just wish that I... Was bulletproof

I know you by your willingness.

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Everyone had weaknesses, wobbly parts that weren't as strong as they would like. Maybe a good relationship meant finding someone willing to step up and help give support when needed. And, maybe more importantly, being willing to ask.

he had basically abandoned her in a foreign country without money, credit cards or her passport.

so many parts of him live on in Christopher. But love is a funny thing, isn't it? When you open your heart to it once, it becomes that much easier to open it again.

Give a man a zero day he will hack for a day, Teach a man how to find a zero day, he will hack for lifetime.

Hacking people is relatively easier than hacking computers because humans are stupid and they tend to trust other humans which makes them vulnerable to each other.

The very idea that a Security Control has to be absolutely perfect and fool proof is flawed. The value of a Security control increases as the time and skill needed to exploit it increases.

There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate man who has nothing to loose.

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

He has lived cloaked so long, he did not know how to reveal his heart.

We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don't'.

As economist Alan Blinder has argued, all impersonal services that can be delivered electronically at a distance, with little or no degradation in quality, are potentially vulnerable.16 What will be harder to replace are human creativity, customization, and human empathy.

I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.