Quotes About Vulnerability

Humility helps us come to terms with what we cannot know. Patience takes the edge off when the hurt continues. Empathy is the gift that connects us with others. Forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Les dolía el corazón de amor y miedo

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.

How such incredibly powerful creatures could be so vulnerable was a crime against the universe. The tragic futility of it all was what really got me. The rhino's brilliant million-year evolutionary effort to build up three tons of muscle, bone and horn to defend itself meant nothing in a modern technological world that didn't care a fig about them. The fact that our grandchildren may never see a rhino in the wild again was a pivotal reason to continue to try and save them.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

Maybe we swore we would never be harsh with our children the way others were harsh with us. Then, just when they need us most - when they act up and misbehave and call us names and son on - we get angry and punish them, or feel hurt and block them out. We momentarily forget how fragile our little ones are, just as they forget about cooperation or sharing or calming down and following the rules.

We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings we frequently marshal to conceal deeper layers of our psyche.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

I dare reveal my private woe, The secret blots of my imperfect heart, Nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert, Nor beautify nor hide. For this I know, That even as I am, thou also art.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Weak people cannot be sincere.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

yet Bennie, like most highly defended people, is total mush beneath the carapace.