Quotes About Vulnerability

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall, our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.