Quotes About Vulnerability

And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Do you remember when I told Ted Koppel that pretty soon someone was gonna have to wipe my ass? Well, I think that day is coming. That one bothers me. - Why? - Because it's the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I'm working on it. I'm trying to enjoy the process. - Enjoy it? - Yes. After all, I get to be a baby one more time.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you're in the dark.

Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

People are only mean when they're threatened

Let [love] come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

Why suffer in front of so many people?

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well.

Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

You see, he says to the girl, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you are falling.

Anger is what we feel when we're helpless.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right? His voice dropped to a whisper. But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well .

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

Broken open is still open.

She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses.

Gradually, I had to face the fact that I could not control everything, no matter how fast my eyes darted from spot to spot. This was hard. I am not good at being vulnerable, Chika, or relying on the Lord to handle it all.

I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone.

You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye.