Quotes About Vulnerability

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us were wrong. Someone we trust.

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?

It would go something like this: "When I see you so angry, I feel frightened and unsafe. It makes me want to run away. But I really want to be with you and not run away. Will you help me feel safer?" Or a Lion dealing with the avoidance of the Unicorn: "When you don't respond to me, I feel rejected. Please help me with my feelings of rejection.

And all the times she'd been called a control freak, they were right, but they didn't understand why: because what she couldn't control was terrifying. Because what we couldn't control was death and that was too much for her brain, that was what sometimes made her so frightened that she could not make a mental connection with anything else, made her stop in the street and want to buckle over.

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.

To expose ourselves to another human's journey is to not only hear the ground truth but also to allow our hearts to soften and our minds to open so that we can access greater empathy, compassion, and trust. So that we can offer the same hospitality to others that we ourselves long to receive.

The transformation occurs in the space between one heart and another. To be heard by someone who is present, open, and caring is to be led into freedom.

A.P., Sara, and Maybelle were at their best when they were plying the sharper edges of private and personal pain.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

En el fondo, toda filosofía no era más que el canto lastimero de un niño que se ve obligado a ahuyentar el miedo que le causa la oscuridad.

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

Ich erinnere mich sehr gut, wie wenig Phantasie die meisten Menschen besaßen. Wahrscheinlich war das ein Glück für sie. Phantasie macht den Menschen überempfindlich, verletzbar und ausgeliefert. Vielleicht ist sie überhaupt eine Entartungserscheinung. Ich habe den Phantasielosen ihren Mangel nie angekreidet, manchmal habe ich sie sogar um ihn beneidet. Sie hatten ein leichteres und angenehmeres Leben als die anderen.

Déjà, je ne suis plus qu'une fine pellicule recouvrant un amoncellement de souvenirs. Je n'en peux plus. Qu'adviendra-t-il de mois si cette peau venait à se rompre ?

them fell silent. Dennison noticed his friend also looked worried and asked what was wrong. As they talked further, each boy admitted being anxious about a private problem. After further discussion, Dennison

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

We create a persona, a building holding all the apartments that are our quirks and our dreams and our desires, and we walk around the world hoping to connect, but hoping, above all, to not be hurt.