Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm trying to be brave 'cause when I'm brave other people feel brave but I feel like my heart is caving in.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Dac? m? simÈ›eam privit de cineva, paÈ™ii mei deveneau stângaci È™i automaÈ›i, ca È™i când mi-ar fi fost permanent team? c? nu voi mai È™ti cum se merge È™i c? dintr-un moment într-altul m? voi pr?buÈ™i pe asfalt.

?i ce masc? de tifon, ce m?nu?i chirurgicale te-ar putea proteja de infec?ia emanat? de amintire?

Y mírame ahora, en mi escondrijo, un ovillo de harapos y cartílagos por cuya mente o corazón nadie apostaría, porque a mí nadie puede ya quitarme nada.

Vocea e sexual?, vine din ovare È™i testicule, e dominant? sau submisiv?, e mânjit? toat? cu vâscozit??ile trupului, cu materia de miliarde de consistenÈ›e a acestei lumi.

Atunci am înÈ›eles c? nimic nu dureaz? în suflet, c? cea mai verificat? încredere poate fi anulat? de un singur gest, c? cele mai sincere posesiuni nu dovedesc niciodat? nimic, c?ci È™i sinceritatea poate fi repetat?, cu altul, cu alÈ›ii, c?, în sfârÈ™it, totul se uit? sau se poate uita.

The heart heals itself when it's open to pain.

The king has been robbed by beggars.

Infants are put out on high ground.

It may have been the light at 5:36 on a June evening or it may have been the smell of dust combined with sprinkler water or the sound of the neighbour kid screaming I'll kill you but suddenly it was like I was dying, the way I missed her. Like I was swooning, like I was going to fall over and pass out. It was like being shot in the back. It was such a surprise, but not a very good one. And then it went away. The way it does. But it exhausted me, like a seizure.

I ako ti u ovaj tren ne progovoriš, ako ne progovoriš neposredno, neposredno, iskreno, ja ?u od te tvoje konvencionalnosti poludjeti ovdje, na ovome mjestu! Meni je tako užasno, glava mi je tako strašno ogromna, tako tamna, i sve je u meni tamno, a ti si tako neistinit, tako patvoren, tako hladan, dalek, tako pasivno strašan(...).

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.

Irish fishermen's prayer: "Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small.

God damn it, let's take our pants down," Walter told his men, "and show them that we're men, not women. I'm tired of this." Walter stripped off his shirt, pants, and underwear. His men followed suit. They walked around nude for the next several hours while the natives wandered among them, more modestly attired in penis gourds.

Se qualcuno piange vuol dire che è ancora vivo. Piangete pure, piccoli miei.

To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

somos más vulnerables a las malas ideas y los malos líderes.

Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.

He said that woman is like the ivy-vine, Which, clinging to its oak, grows lush and tall, But, lacking that support, can't thrive at all.