Quotes About Vulnerability

Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it

A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.

Tu pleures comme une femme ce que tu n'as pas su défendre comme un homme.

Le drame, pour les Européens, c'est que dans le monde impitoyable qui est le nôtre, si l'on renonce à devenir une puissance musclée, on finit par se faire bousculer, et malmener, et rançonner. On ne devient pas un arbitre respecté, on devient une victime potentielle, et un futur otage.

The glass dwellers were terrified of the cloche being lifted. They treated the suffering of others as something exceptional, something that required treatment, when what was exceptional was all this.

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face. And Shobha had worn the mask of a strong woman for so long, no one, including her, bothered to look beneath it to see the fragile mess she was. *

Iran's offensive cyber operations have focused on destructive attacks, including a 2012 attack that destroyed thirty thousand Saudi Arabian computers91 and a 2014 attack that wiped hard drives at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.

Cyberspace, by contrast, is manmade and inherently insecure. The Internet was never designed with security in mind.

In cyberspace, there are no mountains or oceans to protect people or their assets from others. Good neighborhoods and dangerous ones are unavoidably connected. We are all geographically unlucky.

In 2018, about two billion people, or two-thirds of the online population, had their personal information stolen or compromised.

While running a wide range, the cyberattacks perpetrated by China Russia, Iran, and North Korea come in five basic types: stealing, spying, disrupting, destroying, and deceiving.

Anything running on code and connected to the Internet is a potential cyberattack vector. This global battlespace changes every time anyone on earth downloads an app, installs a patch, inserts a thumb drive, connects to airport Wi-Fi, or plugs in a smart toaster.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.

try hard not to say things like this, but every once in a while my need to prove a point, such a base and unattractive need, rises up and I meet it by telling him things that he doesn't need to hear.

This is not true, that nothing bad will happen, and therefore not comforting to me. It leaves me quite alone with reality, but the way he feels is exactly what I want for him.

We eat a couple of cookies in bed and I point out that there's been a change (not a bad thing but still…) in Rachel Maddow's lip gloss and he admires my keen eye and we brush the cookie crumbs onto the floor because no one is watching. I plump my pillow so vigorously, it knocks everything off my nightstand, and he laughs and says that I'm a danger to myself and others. Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.

Hierarchy (or, more specifically, the fear it creates when not handled well) reduces psychological safety.