Quotes About Vulnerability

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

I knew that man would have a profound and disturbing effect on my life. I was rather frightened of him—because I knew if he came towards me, I wouldn't have the power to run away—though it would probably be better if I did.

He lay there watching her, and when she continued to unbutton her dress, his smile widened. "Mr. Reed, you realize that if anything we do tonight causes you a medical problem, Mr. Wilburn will give you such a scold," she said, hoping that she sounded more serene than she felt. "I'm all aquiver about Mr. Wilburn," he said.

The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.

A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

The reason behind the need to dominate others derives from a terror of being dominated by them.

A: Mahal? Ano'ng alam mo sa pagmamahal?! Isa lang ang hinahanap ninyo sa mga lalaki 'di ba? Basta mapuno lang 'yan mga bibig ninyo, masaya na kayo! B: Huhuhuhu! Hindi totoo 'yan, Lester! Mahal talaga kita! Hindi ka naman gan'on kalaki para mapuno ang bibig ko, maniwala ka, Lester! Huhuhu!

Nearly half of foster children in the U.S. become homeless when they turn eighteen

A study entitled "Abuse of children in foster and residential care" found that "foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely, to be abused than a child in the general population.

Children are six times more likely to die in foster homes than if they stayed in an abusive household

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Nobody else gets all of me. Only you." He brushed my hair off of my cheek. "I only expect one thing in exchange." I raised my eyebrows. "What would that be?" "All of you.

Nobody else gets all of me. Only you.

Sometimes a woman's love isn't enough. Sometimes a man hasn't been given the foundation to enable him to express his feelings in return.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

When people close to us try to boost their self-importance by cutting us down, the wounds go deep.

Arrogance covers up insecurities.

Sadly, the ascent of a black man to the presidency of the United States did not, despite all the talk of hope and a post-racial society, signal progress. Instead, it has led to a situation, not so unlike the era of Jim Crow, where a sense of physical vulnerability is shared across classes in the black community.86

presentation, she looked drawn, as old as the limestone hills behind her property. Her facial skin was marbled, hair greying at the roots. She had grown frail, as though she might disintegrate at the first touch; she was a desiccated, vulnerable shadow of her former self and it was hard to

But when you slink around without a stitch of clothes, wielding that nasty-looking knife, aren't you afraid you might miss your target and lop off something else by mistake?" If he didn't know better, he would swear Calera was trying to make amends for biting his head off. Ah, the woman mystified him. She could change moods like the wind switching direction. "A while ago, I had the impression you preferred that I lop something off