Quotes About Vulnerability

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle.

could you have so little strength that you take pride in displaying your sorrow

Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna, di una bottiglietta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che non di una spada o di una pistola.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me. Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.

Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.

Quand on pense, dit Caderousse en laissant tomber sa main sur le papier, qu'il y a là de quoi tuer un homme plus sûrement que si on l 'attendait au coin d'un bois pour l'assassiner  ! J'ai toujours eu plus peur d'une plume, d'une bouteille d'encre et d'une feuille de papier que d'une épée ou d'un pistolet.

What melancholy thought,' said the King, 'can possibly reach your heart when I place mine as a rampart before it?

I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.

I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.

Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.

A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.