Quotes About Vulnerability

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are?

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

I bruise easily and sometimes I can't stop bleeding.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too.

It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very mush like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

We might be hollow, but we're brave

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

SUSCEPTIBILITY TO NEGATIVE INFLUENCES.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Not all people are so constituted that they wish to know the truth about all matters vitally affecting life. One of the great surprises the author of this course has met with, in connection with his research activities, is that so few people are willing to hear the truth when it shows up their own weaknesses.

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.

It is no secret that large corporations prefer people with families; those with downside risk are easier to own, particularly when they are choking under a large mortgage.

The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.

Unless you are perfectly narcissistic and psychopathic—even then—your worst-case scenario is never limited to the loss of only your life.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.

It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.