Quotes About Vulnerability

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee, or in his soul.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

I'm scared to be political. You get too powerful, and more people try to take you out.

There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I always say, I try and be 100 percent myself all the time. So if I'm rejected, it just hurts that little bit less because at least I was myself.

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.

I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.