Quotes About Vulnerability

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

If I had wings I would fly, I'd soar on high where only eagles dareI'd let them rip, I'd let them tear, until all that remained was me bare.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.