Quotes About Vulnerability

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.

Hay cosas que ves venir, no es que te enamores porque te enamoras, te enamoras porque en ese período tenías una desesperada necesidad de enamorarte. En los períodos en que tienes ganas de enamorarte debes fijarte bien dónde te metes: como haber bebido un filtro, de esos que hacen que uno se enamore del primero que pasa. Podría ser un ornitorrinco.

Hastaland???mda kendimi senin ellerine teslim edeyim; sana bilmediklerim dahil hakk?mda her ?eyi anlatay?m ve sen benim ruhumun efendisi ol, ister miydin?

it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.

sách là má»™t sinh v?t y?u Ä'u?i, nó ch?u Ä'á»±ng sá»± bào mòn c?a th?i gian, s? các loài g?m nh?m, k? th?y, k? h?a, và e ng?i nh?ng bàn tay v?ng v?, c?c m?ch.

Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.

Me respondió que, cuando los verdaderos enemigos son demasiado fuertes, hay que buscarse otros enemigos más débiles.

Basit insanlar kasapl?k hayvan gibidir; düÅŸmana sorun ç?karmaya yarad?klar? zaman kullan?l?rlar, art?k iÅŸe yaramaz olunca da kurban edilirler.

T?pk? a??r? sevecenliÄŸin bir savaÅŸç?y? yumuÅŸat?p güçsüz düÅŸürmesi gibi, bu a??r? sahip ç?k?c? ve üste titreyen sevgi de, kitab? önünde sonunda öldürecek olan hastal???n etkisine aç?k bir duruma gelecekti.

Nada hay en el mundo, ni hombre ni diablo ni cosa alguna, que sea para mí tan sospechoso como el amor, pues este penetra en el alma más que cualquier otra cosa. Nada hay que ocupe y ate más al corazón que el amor. Por eso, cuando no dispone de armas para gobernarse, el alma se hunde, por el amor, en la más honda de las ruinas.

Ce e dragostea? Nu exist? nimic pe lume, nici om, nici diavol ÅŸi nici alt lucru pe care eu s? nu-l socotesc atât de suspect ca dragostea, întrucât aceasta p?trunde în suflet mi mult decât orice altceva. Nu exist? nimic care s? acapareze ÅŸi s? lege sufletul ca dragostea. Întrucât, dac? nu ai acele arme care s-o st?pâneasc?, sufletul cade din pricina dragostei într-o ruin? nem?rginit?.

Sylvia had found in the past that when she started to get close to people her own age, when she started to relax and speak her mind, they tended to drift away from her.

Don't complain about our coffee; someday you may be old and weak yourself.

The excessively rich were as shy as wild birds; everybody was hunting them and they took wing at the least hint of danger. They were abnormally sensitive and had to be handled as if they were made of wet tissue paper. They would absorb flattery like sponges—but only that subtle kind which assured them that they were above flattery.

Your armies are going to pieces, but theirs stay put, and the same applies to the air forces. They are probing for weak spots all over the world, and wherever they find one they will move in. Their propaganda war has never been so active.

The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she'd found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn't stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting—intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. Talent alone is not enough. Character and ethics, a point of view about the world in which you live and an education, can and must be acquired and developed.

No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its disasters.

We never want to talk about the difficult things. But if we don't they poison the good things in our lives.

Everyone thinks themselves unique when they fall in love. The truth is, we all lose ourselves in the same way. Whether it takes hours or days or weeks, we all find ourselves in a place of wonder and urgency, where we believe nobody has ever been before to quite the same degree. If everyone felt like this, our script goes, the world would come to a grinding, grinning halt.

Karasik, Natasja – verlegen

Love disarms our emotional defenses; it makes us vulnerable to the other...in suspending our emotional defenses, love exposes our sympathy to the needs of the other.