Quotes About Vulnerability

But it was my way of becoming a human being, and part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There's that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men's dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry. The more awake he gets the more depressed he is. From deep in the pillow he stares at the horizontal strip of stained-glass church window that shows beneath the window shade. Its childish brightness comes from years away.

When I ran from Janice I made an interesting discovery. The tears bubble over her lids and the salty taste of pool-water is sealed into her mouth. If you have the guts to be yourself, he says, other people'll pay your price.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

He doesn't know, what to do, where to go, what will happen, the thought that he doesn't know seems to make him infinitely small and impossible to capture. Its smallness fills him like a vastness.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

It is crucial to realize that your ability to form strong and loving bonds can betray you if you do not intentionally pace a new relationship.

If your partner tells you about getting angry at a coworker and biting that person's head off, then you ought to wonder when that same attitude will be aimed at you.

Resolving your emotional necessities is the first step to avoiding a marriage to a jerk. It is also an indispensable step to avoid becoming the jerk in your marriage

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Trust gets you killed. Love gets you hurt. And being real gets you hated.

expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin'—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.

Etter å ha gått på dans i forskjellige ungdomshus i nokre år og stort sett dansa åleine, fann eg ein gong ut, det må ha vore seint på kvelden, og einkvan må nok ha gitt meg tilstrekkeleg å drikke, at eg skulle be ei jente opp til dans.

R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, I don't know, and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.

To, co vypadá jako slabost, je ve skute?nosti vaÅ¡e síla. A to, co vypadá jako síla, je ?asto slabost, snaha skrýt strach. Je to jen hra nebo fasáda, aÃ…Â¥ p?sobí sebepÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ivÄ›ji na ostatní, nebo dokonce i na vás.

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.