Quotes About Vulnerability

I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.

A new upper class that makes decisions affecting the lives of everyone else but increasingly doesn't know much about how everybody else lives is vulnerable to making mistakes. How vulnerable are you?

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

There are people who invite betrayal. They are demanding towards themselves and don't realize how hard they are on other people. They make it difficult for others not to fail them. And in some cases they even take a grim pleasure from being let down.

Unfortunately, most warning systems do not warn us that they can no longer warn us.)

no matter how effective conventional safety devices are, there is a form of accident that is inevitable.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

MY SECRET IDENTITY IS The room is empty, And the window is open

The male ego is a curious thing. It's about the size of a small continent but it's extremely brittle.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

I tell TAMMY it will be all right. She says what will be all right? I say whatever you are crying about. She says that is exactly what she's crying about. That everything is all right. That the world isn't ending. That we'll never tell each other how we really feel because everything is okay. Okay enough to just sit around, being okay.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be; you couldn't help but hate her for doing that to herself, and at the same time hate yourself for giving in to it, and underneath all of that, despite your hate for her, couldn't help but love her.

By putting ourselves below everyone, we're building in a self-defense mechanism. Protecting against real engagement. By imagining that no one wants us, that all others are so different from us, we're privileging our own point of view.

the inversion of the relationship, the care and feeding, the brute fact of physical dependency: If you don't do this, he can't do it for himself. If you miss a week, he sits in the dark. Not that he'll die. Although there is always that possibility. But he'll be lonelier that day, hungrier.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Mirror is my Best Friend because when i Cry it never Laughs.

They will always criticize you, speak badly of you, it'll be hard to meet someone who will like you as you are, so live, do what your hear tells you to do ... Life is like a play that does not allow testing. So sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.