Quotes About Vulnerability

It was always the conscientious, hard-working ones, Shipley thought, who were the most vulnerable. The people who cared. Those who didn't care, who just wanted to get through the job or the day or the hour and to hell with everyone who didn't like it – those people were protected from shame by their own indifference.

Lorsque nous omettons de voir la main de Dieu dans nos situations, ou lorsque nous nous révoltons contre sa volonté dans notre vie, nous devenons vulnérables à la dépression émotionnelle et spirituelle.

3: I can't wear my heart on my sleeve or it'll be crushed.

Poet David Whyte once said that if we're living the life we truly want to live, someone we love will feel betrayed

I'm only as brave as I have to be . . . and I do not want to have to be this brave.

My bald pate bobs and blunders, I bang it when I fall; My cock's gone soft and clammy And I can't hear when they call.

You are naught but skin and bone and suffering.

Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance with impunity (see Hedges, 2000).

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life.

I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your fingers, but always just a little out of reach. Until at last I got to trust you so much that one day I ventured out for a minute, - and you threw rocks at me. And I will never come out again.

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.

Ä°nsanlar?n iyi niyetleri suistimal ediliyor." "Kim taraf?ndan?" "Biz tabii ki!Hasta insanlar?n buraya gelip o aptalca hikayelere inanmalar?na izin veriyoruz ve iÅŸleri onlar için daha kötü hale getiriyoruz." "?nsanlar?n okuduklar? ÅŸeylere inanmalr?n?engelleyen bir yasa henüz yok ,Abby." "Fakat doland?rmay? engelleyen var.

the disability rights movement is almost unified in opposing assisted suicide—precisely because disabled people know they are the prime targets of the death movement.

After my last call I hung up the telephone and cried softly. So many knew, but nobody helped.

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

I have since learned that forgiveness does not protect us from past, present and future abuse.

When we have been betrayed in our most basic human relationship—and that trust is never restored—how can we learn to trust ourselves to respond appropriately to betrayal?

Self-compassion is such a basic skill, I instinctively taught it to my own children. Yet, I failed to recognize I didn't have it for myself.

In childhood as well as adulthood, each time I shared my feelings with someone, the chosen confidant denied my perceptions

I didn't understand the experience of receiving empathy, or that I could even successfully seek empathy.

Pegg, cowering in her bedroom, asked her housekeeper to check on the ailing Varick. Then, willing herself in to a frenzy, she tore at her hair and clothes, weeping, her sobs accelerating in volume.

Epictetus's core claim: We are all hostages of fortune in some way or other.

Stop it,' he whispered. Hid lidded eyes winced. His hands faltered up to cover his face. Dusty did not stop. 'If I'd known you-if I'd known you when you were alive, I think I would have loved you, too.' Dusty, please stop.' He could barely speak. I think I do love you.' Her voice had dropped to a whisper, because it was a truth like a silver sword. 'I think I do. I cry, too.

absolutely did not. "Door stays open," she