Quotes About Vulnerability

Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be

Getting close to a woman, no matter if it's real or not, can backfire.

Love—the real thing—was what she wanted. What is the real thing? the voice in her head asked. It's trusting whoever you are in a relationship with to love you unconditionally even if you're damaged, she answered.

Family," he muttered as he turned away from the mirror. "I've learned that they can be taken away in the blink of an eye.

Everyone hides something. There's no such thing as a totally transparent person in this whole world

Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.

you to reveal the parts of yourself you tirelessly work at hiding. It will ask you to find compassion for yourself and receive what it is you are convinced you are not worthy of. Love will always demand more. Surrender to being seen and being loved. Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.

I said that it would be easy to fall in love with you," he repeated. "But would it be wise?" He cocked his head to one side and their eyes locked in the short space between them. Slowly his chin went up and down in a nod. "I believe it might be the wisest thing I could do in this lifetime." "Then you have my permission.

When it comes to helping women become better theologians, the church should be first in line. The church is not threatened if we do. It is endangered if we don't. Where there is weakness in the church, we are all vulnerable. When women are not included in the conversation, there are blind spots in the church's ministry—overlooked needs and issues, places where our theology is underdeveloped and detached. In Christ's

Jo…" It was a whisper, a pleading, needful sound that was almost her undoing. "Jo? I can't stand to see you this way. I know you're angry with me, but I need to set things right between us.

Honest autoethnographic exploration generates a lot of fears and self-doubt and emotional pain. Just when you think you can't stand the pain anymore that's when the real work begins. Then there is the vulnerability of revealing yourself, not being able to take back what you 've written or having any control over how readers interpret your story.

People always sounded worried when I called them. Maybe because I only ever called a lot of them when I was in trouble and needed help. I needed to set up more lunch dates or have more parties, to cure people of the idea that a call from me automatically equaled danger. Then again, that was probably a lost cause.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

This ship is full of love and I'm afraid I've broken it.

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

fury is unleashed more freely against those you are most close to . . . so close that there is the trust that anger and ugliness will be forgiven.

It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is for ever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

Biff.. What he had said to Alice was true - he did like freaks. He had a special friendly feeling for sick people and cripples. Whenever somebody with a harelip or TB came into the place he would set him up to beer. Or if the customer were a hunchback or a bad cripple, then it would be whisky in the house. There was one fellow who had had his peter and his left leg blown off in a boiler explosion, and whenever he came to town there was a free pint waiting for him.

Drunk enough to say I love you? - Caryl Churchill

Do you think you're well enough to do this job. You don't have to do it. No one's going to think any the less of you if you stay here with me. There's no point being so liberated you make yourself cry all the time. You stay and we'll get everything sorted out. What it is about sex, when we talk while it's happening I get to feel it's like a driving lesson. Left, right, a little faster, carry on, slow down...

Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.

Crees que ser valiente significa no tener miedo? ¿O atreverse? El coraje, en realidad, significa dar tres pasos cuando eso te aterra