Quotes About Vulnerability

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.

But in weakness a man can be a great danger.

We are all broken, that is how the light gets in.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

His father had dealt so lightly with evil, giving it no chance ever and denying its importance so that it had no status and no shape nor dignity. He treated evil like an old entrusted friend, David thought, and evil, when she poxed him, never knew she'd scored. His father was not vulnerable he knew and, unlike most people he had known, only death could kill him.

We are all broken – that's how the light gets in.

Tu sais, Papa, que les femmes pleurent comme les enfants pissent?

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in

He was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.

The soul is both fragile and resilient...The artisan soul must be both tender and tough.

We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment.

When you need to run, don't run from God; run to him. Don't run from the people you need in your life; run to them. Life was never meant to be lived alone.

In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones

Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

The smaller we feel in the world, the more we need to shine in the eyes of our partner.

No woman should give any man the power to shatter her romantic ideals.

We see what we want to see, what we can tolerate seeing, and our partner does the same. Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness. We narrow down our partner, ignoring or rejecting essential parts when they threaten the established order of our coupledom. We also reduce ourselves, jettisoning large chunks of our personalities in the name of love.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. —Anaïs Nin

All relationships live in the shadow of the third, for it is the other that solders our dyad. In his book Monogamy, Adam Phillips writes, "The couple is a resistance to the intrusion of the third, but in order for it to last it is indispensable to have enemies. That is why the monogamous can't live without them. When we are two, we are together. In order to form a couple, we need to be three.

Is jealousy an expression of love or a sign of insecurity?

What I can see, and she has not yet grasped, is that the thing she's really afraid to lose is not him -it's the part of herself he's awakened. You think you had a relationship with truck man, I tell her. Actually, you had an intimate encounter with yourself mediated by him.

While much has been written about the aggressive manifestations of male sexuality, it is not sufficiently appreciated that the erotic realm also offers men a restorative experience for their more tender side. The body is our original mother tongue, and for a lot of men it remains the only language of closeness that hasn't been spoiled. Through sex, men can recapture the pure pleasure of connection without having to compress their hard-to-articulate needs into the prison of words.