Quotes About Vulnerability

The Shriver Report reveals this quiet reality: The people who we expect to raise us, care for us, and work to support us are too often left unsupported and uncared for.

My mom doesn't know what it's like to be less than perfect, how people zoom in on that until it's all they see. Maybe because it weirds them out...or maybe because it makes them feel better about themselves. People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

When she was old and forgetful, who would search for her if she wandered off? Who would find her and tuck her into the front seat of their car and drive her home? Where would home be, and with whom? The future was a great unknown for everyone, but maybe even a little more so when you had no significant other, no children, no living relatives.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.

Retra recoiled from his dangling nakedness...

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

but embarrassment.

What is our innocence,what is our guilt? All arenaked, none is safe.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I virkeligheden maskerede hvert eneste ord, jeg ikke kunne udtale, et område, som jeg nægtede at trænge ind på. Og hvert eneste ord, jeg glædede mig ved at udtale, angav et område, der passede mig godt.

Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

Sometimes I open a book that's so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can't stand it. It's like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I'm saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don't want it. I want it. I don't want it.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

The Psalmist (PS. 55:12-14) also knew the harm that came from someone very close and how much more painful that was than from a stranger.

to glide gently into facile hands that would deform him.

Los perversos narcisistas son los que más miedo les tienen a los demás. Para ellos, todas las personas a las que no consiguen seducir o someter son potencialmente peligrosas.

You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.