Quotes About Vulnerability

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

All my strength has come back to me. I am no longer wounded or ill. I carry her in my arms. It is difficult work to carry in your arms a being equal to yourself. Strong as you may be, you hardly suffice for it. And what I say as I look at her and see her, I say because I am strong and not because I am weak: "You're everything for me because you are you, and I love all of you."

It is an important experience to be in the presence of a thinking creature who is crying. A weak, broken creature who is crying creates the same impression as an omnipotent god whom one implores; for in its weakness and defeat it rises above the human condition.

Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

Impuissance, puissance des autres»

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

A bubble of air in the blood, a drop of water in the brain, and a man is out of gear, his machine falls to pieces, his thought vanishes, the world disappears from him like a dream at morning. On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence!

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

as the military has discovered, if the amount of stress is great enough, anyone can be broken down by it.

An amiable weakness.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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vlci a ovce dohodli na odzbrojení a jak ovce na znamení toho, že konají v dobré víÃ…â"¢e, poslaly hlídací psy pry? – a vlci je pak snÄ›dli.

When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.

I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade. I am less frightened by failure – I have come to accept it and feel less threatened by it and hopefully have learned from the mistakes I made in the past. I can dare to be a little less detached. Besides, with advancing age I can no longer deny that I am made of the same flesh and blood as my patients and that I am equally vulnerable.

Pacientët përpiqen ta mposhtin frikën e tyre duke i veshur kirurgut fuqi mbinatyrore!

I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.