Quotes About Vulnerability

I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.

What's weird, I said, is that I've never seen you cry. He said, I cry all the time.

What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my out-sides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.

I pulled the book from him.     It was wet with tears running down the pages, as if the book itself were crying.     He hid his face in his hands.     Let me see you cry, I told him. I do not want to hurt you, he said by shaking his head left to right. It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me, I told him.     Let me see you cry.

We would have been safe.

Zij sprak openhartig over de mishandelingen door haar vader, en liet hem de beurse plekken zien die zelfs een huid niet kan vertonen.

You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child. (But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.) I do not understand, I said. (I understand.) You do not? he said. (You do.) ... I am not a bad person, he said. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time. I know this, I said. (Even if you were a bad person, I would still know you are a good person.)

After fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the "most extreme racist theories." Singer argued that animal rights was the purest form of social-justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals was the epitome of the "might-makes-right" moral paradigm. We trade their most basic and important interests against fleeting human ones only because we can.

Brod was afraid any tears of her own would cause the walls of the old house to give way, so she sandbagged them behind her eyes, exiled them to someplace deeper, safer.

Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt.

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Embarrassment is the Parmalat of emotions.

But he didn't say anything, and neither did she. Not because the words were deliberately withheld, but because the pipeline between them was too occluded for such bravery.

The vast and distant military and civilian structure that provides a modern soldier with his orders, arms, ammunition, food, water, information, training, and fire support is ultimately a moral structure, a fiduciary, a trustee holding the life and safety of that soldier. The need for an intact moral world increases with every added coil of a soldier's mortal dependency on others. The vulnerability of the soldier's moral world has vastly increased in three millennia.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.

cuando nos amamos, aceptamos y valoramos sin juzgar nuestras carencias, nuestra imperfección y nuestra vulnerabilidad, no perdemos tiempo en pelearnos por cambiar. Es entonces cuando el amor y la compasión crecen en nosotros y, para nuestra sorpresa, el cambio se produce

Por eso a veces es tan difícil estar con otro. Porque cuando estoy sola puedo imaginarme que soy de lo mejor; pero en el contacto íntimo sale lo mejor y también lo peor de mí: mi competencia, mis celos, mi lucha por el poder, mis ganas de controlarte, de manipularte, mi falta de generosidad, etcétera, etcétera, etcétera.