Quotes About Vulnerability

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence

One smirk, and you disassemble my armor.

Una sonrisa, y desmontas mi armadura.

Your gaze betrays the willingness in your heart.

Her character, Mr. Wogan, is a tender and delicate plant. It will not grow under glass, but in a dark room, where I believe it flourishes most invisibly.

Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?

Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.

Ç?plakt?k ç?plakl???m?z s o n s u z a de?iyordu

Quem ama a perfeição? Não, o amor quer cuidado e o cuidado necessita dos erros da pessoa amada, necessita de feridas, de fragilidade. O amor quer curar, e a perfeição não tem necessidade de cura. Não se pode amar a perfeição, simplesmente adorar.

She is afraid of depression. It skulks around her house like a shadow: a giant, slow and remorseless. It will be like leaving the door wide-open if she keeps on like this, messing up her routines. So all the giant has to do is crouch down, step inside and get her.

Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Yo también lloré como un grifo pasado de rosca, pues nada asusta tanto a los niños, como el llanto de las personas mayores. Ni siquiera el rugido de un león produce tanto miedo a la infancia como el espectáculo de un adulto gimoteando. (P. 14).

99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.

Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

No one is a hero at 4:00 a.m.,

Protect your heart from the "bad", it's the most precious thing you own

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

To the ones who feel like it could all come apart at any moment . . . and to the ones who comfort us and keep us together

It is impossible for a person to be loved totally, at all times by all his friends. The degree of love and acceptance fluctuates considerably.