Quotes About Vulnerability

It's the inner life that fucks up relationships.

It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much . . .

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the to light is, know what it will do to them. And they come anyway.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Like blind boys they found each other, and confirmed each other, and through the FM of the flesh they sent to one another impulses of courage and affection.

Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms. I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left. Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.

I didn't even know I could feel that way, that I could be filled with a longing so raw ad unexpected that it brought tears to my eyes.

In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, "There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.

Severe early childhood trauma creates a child with equally intense coping mechanisms—these children are often seen as "mature for their age" and "old souls." While maybe true, it often negates the fact that their innocence was taken away at an early age and they are in survival mode. —Azia Archer

Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.

If you forgive more than you can afford, you may find yourself impoverished in emotion afterward, with a lowered resistance to whatever happens after that.

Actually, offense is a sign of fear. If you're offended, it's because you're afraid that person can harm you in some way.

But what was it with kids? Why was it that kids always had to dig whatever the wound, even deeper? Like bats radaring in to suck blood.

2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world- frightening as it is- could be the end of the world, which would be quite a pity." (28).

The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

We're also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.