Quotes About Vulnerability

When and if I wish to yield my privacy to the scrutiny of others, you will be the first to be invited to the exhibition.

A scene took shape in my mind of myself weeping over Thomas's blood-soaked, outstretched form, a ridiculous scene in which I urged, "Git up, Person, git up!" Actually, I could not recall the last time I had shed tears. It was something that I had stopped doing many years ago.

The quickness with which all positive emotions such as love and trust can be expunged from the heart of a child is astounding. p 131

Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn't know.

yesterday I saw Quentin not as the bright face everyone puts on for the purpose of dating but as she was when things broke down, and I still wanted to be there. Maybe more than ever, if only to enjoy the happiness that inevitably follows tragedy, when everything works out.

Yes… Obviously!" I replied. I'd just finished explaining to one of my mentors why it was so vitally important that I achieve a particular objective. "That means you don't understand where your security and well-being come from," he told me. "Your happiness, security and OK-ness don't come from outside you, so they're not vulnerable to anything outside you.

I'm just me – half a family, no awareness whatsoever about style, or what's in and what's out. I'm not like the lizards. I don't really even know how I'm supposed to be with a guy that I'm attracted to. I've never been a game player. I don't know how to be coy… or sexy… or whatever. I have no finesse.

White is The color for innocence, but iT can Be So Dangerous.

Sure it's true that some give others their trust and heart while others understand it wrong, because some they don't know their position in the trust.

I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon - "Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that's when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.

All people are children when they sleep. There's no war in them then . . . They . . . open their hands halfway, soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters. . . . If only we could speak to one another then when our hearts are half-open flowers Words like golden bees would drift in.

A small parish is a fragile ecology.

Listen. 'Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us—whether their words appear to be deep or shallow—listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don't have the slightest interest in her themselves.

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.

Toen ik naast het bed ging zitten zei ze dat ik er goed uitzag en ik voelde me toen een soort ludieke ploert. Want ik was gezond en ik kon niets voor haar doen.

We're all broken. Some of us are just in more pieces. It's how we handle it that makes us brave, and from where I'm sitting, you're the bravest person I've ever met.

I opened my mouth to do some calm explaining. "I'm gay." is what came out.

The world and all the people in it had suddenly slipped beyond her comprehension and she felt in great danger of losing the whole world once and for all--a feeling that is difficult to explain.

But do you know," said Andy, "how beautiful and delicate a man's heart is when he is happy for the first time? It is like the thin ice that has imprisoned those beautiful young plants that are released when the ice thaws.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.