Quotes About Vulnerability

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. We're all tormented by that same destructive feeling, the sense that no one else on the planet cared about us

Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

In order to hear Love's words, you must allow Love to approach.

For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects

Ciertas personas, en el afán de querer construir un mundo donde ninguna amenaza externa pueda penetrar, aumentan exageradamente sus defensas contra el exterior y dejan su interior desguarnecido.

Esperar. Ésa fue la primera lección que aprendí sobre el amor. El día se arrastra, haces miles de planes, imaginas todas las conversaciones posibles, prometes cambiar tu comportamiento… y te vas poniendo ansiosa y ansiosa, hasta que llega tu amado. Entonces ya no sabes qué decir. Esas horas de espera se han transformado en tensión, la tensión en miedo, y el miedo hace que nos dé vergüenza mostrar nuestro afecto.

When the walls come down, love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.

Même si l'Ecclésiaste dit qu'il y a un temps pour déchirer et un temps pour coudre, le temps pour coudre laisse parfois des cicatrices très profondes, le pire ce n'est pas de se promener dans Genève seul et misérable, c'est de donner à une personne qui est près de nous l'impression qu'elle n'a pas la moindre importance dans notre vie

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.

He is not intimidated by silence, indifference, or rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

my heart is afraid that it will have to suffer

It's risky, falling in love.

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

I want to feel the rain on my face, to smile at any man I feel attracted to, to accept all the coffees men might buy for me. I want to kiss my mother, tell her I love her, weep in her lap, unashamed of showing my feelings, because they were always there even though I hid them.

Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you'll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something