Quotes About Vulnerability

Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

The weak fear happiness itself.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Faut être drôlement heureux pour supporter d'être triste, drôlement heureux ou drôlement courageux, et moi je ne suis pas très courageuse, et je suis très très malheureuse.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.