Quotes About Vulnerability

And—I don't know—I guess words can't kill you, but I'm afraid that they can. I'm afraid one day someone will say something that destroys me.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defence if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Sorrow makes us children again.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Man swings between cunningness of the Mind and vulnerability of the Heart! Be Aware.

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain and unreliable, believe me!

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.

far softer than putty, indeed, to be able to do to her what they began to do then.

Maybe you only get one chance at meeting somebody who really gets inside you, wakes corners of your mind and heart that you didn't know were asleep.

instance, a betrayal makes us afraid of other people and can be a barrier to recovery because we must rely on other

But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.

For a long time, whenever the hunter took off his clothes, she would laugh as if he were playing a trick on her, something magical but ridiculous. He would explain to her how useful and beautiful clothes are; she listened, always, with the same willing doubtful smile. She would have liked to be fooled, but it was more than she could manage; the hunter was the one clothed thing in a naked world.

Hard times destroy the weak and strengthen the strong. Soft times weaken everyone.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

Strong selection for extreme mental capacities may have given us all minds like the legs of racehorses, fast but vulnerable to catastrophic failures. This model fits well with the idea that schizophrenia is intimately related to language and cognitive ability.93 It also fits well with the observation that schizophrenia may be intimately related to the human capacity for "theory of mind," our ability to intuit other people's motives and cognitive abilities in general.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.