Quotes About Vulnerability

Most people in relationships seldom know what they really want, ask for what they really want, or show what they really feel. Most people avoid or fear intimacy, consistent

When we look deeply into our fears, we see that, at base, every fear is a fear of not having control

The ability to hear someone is really about trust, not simply about communication. A trust issue always lurks beneath a communication difficulty.

While certain partners may hurt us, they cannot undo the abiding trust that we continue to carry so steadfastly toward the human world. We become able to hold others with a relaxed grasp, not compulsively or coercively as if we needed to hold on for dear life. Buddhist writer Stephen T. Butterfield wrote, "Since no relationship can be made entirely safe and secure . . . this has to mean trust in one's own ability to use any consequence, including betrayal, as a means for waking up.

Feeling inadequate has always been my biggest problem.

And if you say run, I'll run with you And if you say hide, we'll hide. Because my love for you Would break my heart in two. If you should fall Into my arms And tremble like a flower.

Weak democracies are vulnerable to coup d'états because their institutions cannot absorb a frontal assault.

If it got any closer, I don't know if I could ever let you go. The most beautiful can be the most hazardous, the most vicious.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.

This study shows that lifestyle is fundamentally involved in vulnerability to cancer.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Anne Lamott advises, "Try not to compare your insides with other people's outsides.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

You're as sick as your secrets.

I am a sucker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.

My drawing - now there are drops, tears, from the two branches of the tributary and six circles above it. Then I know - I have drawn the opening up of my brain and all that is in there - tears pain blood rage terror. The broken suitcase with the circles, its contents - me, former me - spilling out.

One girl, Nic's friend, says how different the images are in our family's pictures and how intense each one is, but she says that Nic's heart leads into ventricles and my stream of chalk looks like a broken artery. Somehow I am crying. Nic's hand is on my shoulder.

Parents are suckers.

I have a daughter who reminds me too much of what I used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. —KURT COBAIN, in his suicide note

I well up with tears for it. For all of it. On the one hand: the uncertain future. The possibility of another hemorrhage. The chance that my children will be killed in a car accident. The chance that Nic will relapse. A million other catastrophes. On the other: compassion and love. For my parents and family. For my friends. For Karen. For my children. I may feel more fragile and vulnerable, but I experience more consciousness.

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

It's vital that you remind everyone around you at the hospital that you're still a human being, even when you feel like a gravely wounded animal. The hospital care providers were not my family, but I soon realized that I needed them to care about me as if we were connected by blood.