Quotes About Vulnerability

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

O amor não é uma questão de parecer perfeito aos olhos da outra pessoa. É uma questão de poder mostrar suas imperfeições

Amy might have called him brave in that email but he was afraid of everything about Amy, especially her body, which had the terrible problem of being crippled and attractive.

I don't believe there's such a thing as casual sex for people like you and me. How could there be? We don't have casual relationships with our bodies. They're unpredictable, humiliating things that have failed us so much it's hard not to hate them, and impossible to imagine being naked with another person and relaxed at the same time.

I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER TRY TO DATE. I DON'T SEE THE POINT." "Well, I'm trying it," he said, and then laughed a little. But this obviously wasn't funny. She hadn't expected this. "YOU'RE DATING SOMEONE?" "A little," he said, and drew a deep breath. "And there isn't really much of a point. What I've learned is that I have certain qualities that are annoying to other people.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

Love makes fools of us all, I fear.

Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the predatory fish, waterborne snakes, and other creatures they were disturbing. Even

There is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are

desperate people can make themselves believe anything!

Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.

you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.

Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don't let them think they are for a minute.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

ViaÅ£a afectiv? a introvertitului este în genere latura lui slaba., aceea pe care nu se poate neaparat conta. El se iluzioneaz? singur in aceasta privinta. iar alÅ£ii se iluzioneaz? si se deziluzioneaz? în leg?tur? cu el, dac? îi iau în calcul doar afectivitatea. Spiritul îi este mai sigur, caci este mai adaptat. Natura afectivit??ii sale este prea nedomolit?.

It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

children died that same week at the hands of a parent, just like every week—and most of them were under 5 years old. Four million luckier children were physically abused last year

The next signal I explain to Kelly is one I call loan-sharking: "He wanted to be allowed to help you because that would place you in his debt, and the fact that you owe a person something makes it hard to ask him to leave you alone.

In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one.