Quotes About Vulnerability

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet.

So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Don't be afraid to show your flaws.

Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.

Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.

Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

But because many of us are afraid of being hurt, we have decided to build only walls. No doors, no windows, no peep holes. Just walls.

I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

I don't know how to drive a car.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

La lengua en la oreja es el beso que más convence, la lengua que indaga y desarma, la que susurra y besa, la que casi obliga".

Hay hombres que se aprovechan de las mujeres tímidas, o de las muy jóvenes, o de las educadas, de las que tienen horror al enfrentamiento. Incluso a dar una negativa clara. Las hay, aunque no te lo creas. Que al final se dejan mucho, sólo por no hacer un feo o no montar una escena.

Lo que es muy raro es sentir debilidad, verdadera debilidad por alquien, y que nos la produzca, que nos haga débiles. Eso es lo determinante, que nos impida ser objetivos y nos desarme a perpetuidad y nos haga rendirnos en todos los pleitos.

valójában bárki megsemmisíthet bennünket, ahogyan meg is hódíthat bárki, és ebben rejlik törékenységünk lényege.

volver a verla, nunca más volver a verla. Qué extraño contacto ese contacto íntimo, qué fuertes vínculos inexistentes crea al instante, aunque

lo largo de mi vida no me he encontrado con mujer alguna que conservara el sostén entre sábanas.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something, and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear.

difficult conversations do not just involve feelings, they are at their very core about feelings.

Learning about ourselves can be painful—sometimes brutally so—and the feedback is often delivered with a forehead-slapping lack of awareness for what makes people tick. It can feel less like a "gift of learning" and more like a colonoscopy.

It's hard to hear someone else when we are feeling unheard, even if the reason we feel unheard is that we have chosen not to share.