Quotes About Vulnerability

Unless one throws away all weapons, all armor, he cannot learn meekness.

Go on. Go on", urged Billy in a soft voice. His eyes were large. He drew up his knees under the covers.

For the first time in his life he understood that he was like all men, and all were like him. They too were called to love, and they too feared love. Germans, Russians, and Poles, Gentiles and Jews, good men and bad, rich and poor—all clinging to their weapons of defense, all dwelling in terror of absolute nakedness.

A good point, my son. But it underlines the fact that those who do not live in the power of the Holy Spirit are most vulnerable. Even believers can reduce the Faith to a philosophical system. They can retain the exterior forms of religion and lose its heart.

Perhaps there are places within us, places of true home, that do not yet exist and are carved from the stone of our hearts only by suffering. Perhaps. Who will tell me if this is true? For if it is not, then I am subject to the cruelest delusion of all. Yet, if I were to know, I would cease to be vulnerable, and I might make my home in exile.

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

The pillars of wisdom are these: humility, powerlessness, poverty, loneliness, sickness, rejection, and abandonment.

The first task in making a successful transition is to accelerate your learning. Effective learning gives you the foundational insights you need as you build your plan for the next 90 days. So it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Terror and shame go hand in hand. There is fear in realizing that we are helpless to persuade others that we are human. In that moment

The artist in Hansberry saw in the photograph of a black woman being manhandled by white cops all the suffering, all the injustice, all the offense to black life. The brutality was grave enough; the spread of the image transmitted trauma and reinforced the vulnerability of black women and, indeed, the race.

od najwcze?niejszego dzieci?stwa nauczyli?my si? wyszukiwa? w ludziach s?abo?ci, za pomoc? których mogli?my na nich wp?ywa?.:

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Secrecy is a fragile state, a single time undone and forever finished.

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

Otorite sayg?y? kazan?r, iktidarsa talep eder; otoritenin tuza?a ihtiyac? yokken iktidar, ürkütücü, a??rl?k sunan giysiler gereksinir; otorite aç?k yürek, iktidarsa s?k?l? yumruktur.

Strong men are not the ones you have to worry about, it's weak man that you have to worry about, putting authority and power in the hands of weak people, because when people who never had anything throughout their life, now have power over you, boy do they abuse it.

I think it's true that the older you get, the more you cry

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Physical proximity, of course, facilitates the common education of the affects, but also essential are the intense experiences of cooperation, the creation of mutual security in a situation of extreme vulnerability, and the collective deliberation and decision-making processes. The encampments are a great factory for the production of social and democratic affects.

Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.