Quotes About Vulnerability

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Healing is learning to trust life.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost infinite capacity for suffering anddegradation. He took especial delight in tending to the physically incapacitated and wasthankful for the loose coats that "prevented the matrona from spotting the engorged cock that I would occasionally press against the bedridden patient".

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

Saved From Myself How often I've cried out in silent tongue to be saved from myself in the middle of the night too afraid to move horrified the answer may be beyond the capability of my own two hands so small

I used my intuition like a weapon; whatever insecurity and weakness I sensed in him, I exploited.