Quotes About Vulnerability

I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.

É que os covardes temem até mesmo a felicidade. Machucam-se com algodão. Podem se ferir com a própria felicidade.

In any case, a completely invincible hero just isn't good story material.

When you come face to face with absolute reliability, you tend, first of all, to burst into silly laughter. You just come all undone. It's like-this is a funny way to put it, I know, but it's like chuckling with relief after loosening your belt. Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated. By no means must you reproach her. She has merely been overwhelmed by the absolute reliability she senses in you.

I've become a man who can't say a single bad thing about anybody. I'm a coward—timid whenever I meet someone.

Apparently when someone stays in a civilized kingdom too long, even his skin becomes delicate.

I opened my trunk and almost burst into tears. At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore.

The more naked a person's words are, the more comical, broken, and made-up they sound.

Zay?f insanlar mutluluktan bile korkar. ?plikle bile yaralan?rlar. Bazen mu?tluluk da insanlar? yaralayabilir.

Forget about all the women in the world. I can't even deal with one girl next door and I'm in such pain I feel like I'm going to die. And never mind my superior capabilities—I don't know the first thing about governing a kingdom. And as for people gazing at me in wonderment, well, all they do is deceive me. All that happens is they swindle me. I'm endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them.

But the true shape of love lies where one closes one's eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one's love is weak. It's egotistical. They're calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.

If you're too timid to be able to say it, then it means that you are too concerned about yourself. You're afraid to leap into the waves. If you really love someone, then the words of devotion will unconsciously slip out.

Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...

Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.

The heart was made to be broken.

Hearts are made to be broken.

Worrying means exactly what this servant implied—"I know your intent is to leave me unprotected and vulnerable." A person who is lazy in the natural realm is always critical, saying, "I haven't had a decent chance," and someone who is lazy in the spiritual realm is critical of God. Lazy people always strike out at others in an independent way.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Beauty is a fragile gift.