Quotes About Vulnerability

...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

You never put her in your heart.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

Patience is not learned in safety.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

A disarmed peace is weake.

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.