Quotes About Vulnerability

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

In order to love, we must address our fears.

An open heart leaves a breach for someone to pour love into it.

Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.

The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.

She was like a permanent invasion of one's privacy.

There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful in the midst of her curls, so touchingly childish with her pink toes and her grave sleeping face, so trustful in the helplessness of her limp hands and melted limbs, that the tears came to his eyes.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

Mewling and puking