Quotes About Vulnerability

Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear, and no ears to head it if there was a word, and no one to understand it if they heard. God save the little children! They abide and they endure.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

And here is the alternative in which man risks himself, even if almost unconsciously: either you face reality wide open, loyally, with the bright eyes of a child, calling a spade a spade, embracing its entire presence, even its meaning; either this, or you place yourself in front of reality, defend yourself against it, almost with your arms flung in front of your eyes to ward off unwelcomed and unexpected blows.

The more we discover our needs, the more we become aware that we cannot resolve them on our own. Nor can others, people like us. A sense of powerlessness accompanies every serious experience in our lives.

the greatest danger which today's humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither is it famine, nor even disease; rather it is spiritual malady, which is the most terrible malady because the most directly human among the scourges is to remain "without the taste for life."5 In such a situation, the individual finds himself ever more vulnerable within the social fabric. This is the most dangerous outcome of solitude.

La compagnia non è la semplice evoluzione della tua capacità affettiva, ma è un'opera che lo Spirito costruisce sulla fragilità del tuo sì... Secondo me, se ripetete cento volte questa frase, è molto meglio che cercare altre parole con cui spiegarla.

She learned that women were braver than men. Braver and stronger. She learned that she herself could one day stretch open as wide as a window, and it would not kill her.

She reached for him, Cruz Chavez, the only man who had ever pressed his face against her and listened to her heart.

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

La seguridad, ese insecto que anida en los volantes de la luz

Yo vengo sin idiomas desde mi soledad, y sin idiomas voy hacia la tuya. No hay nada que decir, pero supongo que hablaremos desnudos sobre esto, algo después, quitándole importancia, avivando los ritmos del pasado, las cosas que están lejos y que ya no nos duelen.

Las debilidades son lo único bueno que tenemos. Es aburrido ser fuerte, y muy agradable flaquear a solas... y entre dos

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.

There has never been a time in my career when I have faced the empty page and not been scared. I was scared as a junior-coassistant-copy-cub-intern. And I'm scared today.

The things about yourself you fear are the most personal are also the most universal." Trust

The simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

You can't take the leaps of vulnerability involved in working through early emotional injuries while you are feeling emotionally unsafe. Because you are emotionally unsafe. And if you succeed in acheiving greater intimacy with your abusive partner, you will soon get hurt even worse than before, because greater closeness means greater vulnerability for you.

It is in your primary relationship that you should be able to feel the most sure of receiving kindness and support, of being carefully listened to, of being seen and understood.

Cómo sabe un cliente si la mujer está ahí por propia voluntad o es esclava de una red de tratantes que la controlan con deudas impagables, amenazas y aisloamiento?

All men, every last one of them, were terribly fond of pretty women. Any cheeky housemaid could wrap any man, even a decent one, around her little finger.