Quotes About Vulnerability

What we are really saying to ourselves is, "I don't trust you enough to take good care of me, so I'm going to stay away from everything.

overweight person seeks protection from hurts, slights, criticism, abuse, sexuality or sexual advances, and life in general. Louise had observed in her own life that when she would feel insecure and not at ease, she would put on a few pounds. Then, the excess weight would go away

Make love to me," she whispered. "If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one of him when he takes my blood, but we are two." "We are two and more than two," he whispered in her ear, and then he lifted her and carried her to the bed.

Help me," said the Brown Sister. Her face

True Strength is delicate.

Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repair that you would greet each overture with curling lip?

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I don't know. I need help. These are the signposts. The cardinal directions.

Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.

She wasn't afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength.

the four statements that lead to wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up.

Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there.

told him the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Chief Inspector Gamache's says there are 'four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.

There seems such a fine line between falling into place and falling apart.

It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out.

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.' 'What an extraordinary poem. Ruth Zardo?' 'Leonard Cohen. Clara used it in her piece. She wrote it on the wall behind the three of you, like graffiti.

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.