Quotes About Vulnerability

Most husbands seek to kill their wives' loves so we'll love only them. They are insecure little boys.

In another portion of the teaching, Jesus states: "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves."2 Ultimately, the love that lives within each of us is the source of all healing that we experience. To feel our love, however, we must be vulnerable to our pain. Hurt is one way for us to know how deeply we can feel. Our capacity to feel pain within ourselves, as well as have empathy for the pain of

You betrayed me. You betrayed me as father to the son who is father to the man. It was your responsibility as my father and keeper to protect me from trespasses, from things that go bump in the night, from the urges and yearnings of other grown men. You didn't fulfill your duty and I was sold at the ripe age of seven to a carnal circus.

The woman's form under the blankets was barely visible from the doorway, yet Allander could sense the inconsistency of her femininity. It scared him, the inconsistency. It always had.

The question struck him deep, in a place he'd kept insulated for so long he'd forgotten that it was vulnerable.

Never give up the personal—it will return as a weapon wielded against you. He

Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Where would I be if not for your wild heart? I ask this not from love, but selfishly— how could I live? How could I make my art?

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension.

Mais riez riez de moi Hommes de partout surtout gens d'ici Car il y a tant de choses que je n'ose vous dire Tant de choses que vous ne me laisseriez pas dire Ayez pitié de moi.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

Aimer, c'est toujours dangereux, Martin ! Aimer, c'est espérer tout gagner en risquant de tout perdre, et c'est aussi parfois accepter de prendre le risque d'être moins aimé que l'on n'aime. - Eh bien tu vois, dit-il en se levant de table, ce risque, je crois que je ne suis plus prêt à le prendre.

You only really deserve love if you give your whole body and soul to it, throwing yourself in and risking everything.

Postoje rijetki trenuci u životu kada vam se otvore jedna vrata i život vam ponudi susret koji više niste o?ekivali. Susret sa bi?em s kojim se dopunjujete, koje vas prihvata onakvim kakvi ste, koje vas uzima u cijelosti, koje nazire i prihvata vaše kontradikcije, strahove, osje?aje...

Kada volimo, postajemo ranjivi." "Ne", tvrdi Mark, "postajemo ja?i.