Quotes About Vulnerability

the feeling of false stability.

He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus.

Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.

But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread.

He knows you?" said Mae, her frown deepening. "But you didn't call out to him, child. Why not?" "I was too scared to do anything ," said Winnie honestly. Tuck shook his head. "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children," he said.

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need.

You think you're the only one? Theo said. Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

To find it humiliating to admit an error is a certain sign of flawed self-esteem.

Just as a healthy immune system does not guarantee that one will never become ill, but makes one less vulnerable to disease and better equipped to overcome it, so a healthy self-esteem does not guarantee that one will never suffer anxiety or depression in the face of life's difficulties, but makes one less susceptible and better equipped to cope, rebound, and transcend.

have nightmares all the time, and when I cry

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

a flower of strange beauty, growing in a desolate spot, and blossoming in the wind...

A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?

Miserable!" exclaimed Rappaccini. "What mean you, foolish girl? Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy—misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath—misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?

Habría querido ser amada, no temida - murmuró Beatrice, desplomándose en el suelo-. Pero ahora y no importa.

Since republics rely on the inherent virtue of the people, they are exceedingly fragile. All it takes is one well-placed person to destroy everything. Washington, his face betraying the sadness, anger, and shock of this most recent revelation, turned to Lafayette and asked, "Whom can we trust now?

However baby man may brag of his science and skill . . . ," Melville writes in Moby-Dick, "yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you have bought something. Make the mistake of telling your address and now you're on a mailing list. Some old guy pats you on the shoulder and before you know what hit you you're in a hotel room. Stalkers' victims, the ones they kill, are always women.

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.

But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little, how she's lived in fear of being eaten alive by the morons around her. They just don't get it. Mom always lectures me about not being afraid of getting hurt, but all she can imagine is the kind of hurt she's experienced herself. She has no idea of the threats that surround kids these days, how much we're bullied, how much hurt this causes.