Quotes About Vulnerability

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Love is dangerous for your tiny heart.

Era la época en que todavía llevaba mi corazón hecho pedazos metidos en una caja de zapatos.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Confident sheep overcome insecure wolves.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

Love can blind you, but woe to one who becomes both blind and deaf.

Tears are the sound the heart makes when it breaks.

Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.

Weather-beaten heart the wind must blow right through my body

As a speaker you need to identify your greatest weakness and use it to enhance your audience's understanding of who you are.

Speakership is the great certainty filter. Anything you're unsure about will be exposed and interrogated when you say it in public.

To a small subset of the population the very fact that you are willing to stand up and speak out makes you a target for unfair critique.

My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.

That's the weirdest thing, by the way. That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. Cops, teachers, parents, hot girls, pro ballers, everybody. For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them.

And sometimes when her light brown eyes locked on to my dark brown ones, it was like she was reaching a hand all the way into my chest, like she was digging around in there for the most honest thing she could find.

I'm scared shitless." Knowing and accepting that a few things were bound to go wrong.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?" "Pretty much.

People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don't speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warmth. You'll be cool when you're dead.

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper water, hoping but not knowing there will be land somewhere ahead.