Quotes About Vulnerability

But what did they protest? Inequality, which is the variety of God. Instability, which is the light of the universes. Uneasiness of mind, which is the soul of philosophy. Apparent injustices, which are the goad of the spirit. Vulnerability to life and other men, which is a charge to become invulnerable through Faith in God. The presence of suffering or misfortune—but these are a call for the soul to put on armor and serenity.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

Lopez patted his arm, closed her eyes with a pained grimace and said, "Then you gotta man the fuck up and go talk about your emotions." She opened her eyes at the muffled groan of protest from Jonah and said sympathetically, "I know, I feel your pain. You want to go shoot something?

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something thats unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

Thats always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think theyre just never going to hurt you, then they do. Thats when you get the worst heartbreak.

I'm on my guard with the rest of world but with you I know it's no good.

Hold on, baby you're losing it The water's high, you're jumping into it And letting go...and no one knows That you cry, but you don't tell anyone That you might not be the golden one And you're tied together with a smile But you're coming undone

You just see right through me, but if you only knew me...

And I remember that fight, 2:30 a.m. As everything was slipping right out of our hands I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street Braced myself for the goodbye 'Cause that's all I've ever known Then you took me by surprise You said I'll never leave you alone

Wasn't it easier in your firefly-catchin' days? And everything out of reach, someone bigger brought down to you Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild 'til you fell asleep? Before the monsters caught up to you?

Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart? Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart,now? Why would you wanna make the very first scar? Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I'm bullet-proof, but I'm not You took a swing, I took it hard And down here from the ground I see who you are.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

I wish this didn't affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.

It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.

like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

for like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.

La loro distaccata crudeltà, la loro istintiva capacità di individuare il punto debole nell'armatura emotiva di una vittima, il modo in cui la loro stessa amicizia veniva rafforzata dal sadismo: riconobbe questi come esempi di un comportamento umano, non divino.