Quotes About Vulnerability

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

A lamb among wolves!

He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.