Quotes About Vulnerability

His body jerked as it trembled, and she recognized the nerves overtaking passion. The uncontrollable shaking came when a sub felt his true vulnerability to a Mistress's will for the first time, an anxiety that came with relinquishing control to someone by some compulsion that defied issues of logic, strength or bindings.

Relationship games always carry a risk," he managed lightly. "D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and a very, very healthy devotion o one another. Like religion, it can be a spiritually enlightening experience, or it can be an expression of psychosis. And somewhere in between, it can be tremendously fun.

You will explain to me what you are doing. Right after you get down from there and put on some clothes. Now.

A man who would submit to her desires as willingly as Josh was a heady aphrodisiac.

You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt. We all can, love. We all can.

for each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.

If we can figure out at the age of five which kids are going to be addicts and which ones aren't, that tells us something fundamental about drug addiction. "Their relative maladjustment," the study found, "precedes the initiation of drug use." Indeed, "Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

This use of solitary confinement is a standard punishment in American prisons. Not long before this, a mentally disabled man in another Arizona prison called Mark Tucker was kept in solitary for so many years, with his pleas for a cellmate refused, that he eventually set himself on fire. In the hospital, with 80 percent of his body burned, he was informed that the Department of Corrections was charging him $1.8 million to pay for the medical care14 to treat his injuries.

The internet arrived for most of us in the late 1990s, into a society where the middle class was starting to crumble and where financial insecurity was rising, and we were sleeping an hour less than people did in 1945. It would always have been hard to resist the sophisticated human-hacking of surveillance capitalism, but it appeared we were already getting weaker, and we were easier to hack than we would have been otherwise.

they are degrading the quality of our thinking. Without mind-wandering, we find it harder to make sense of the world—and in the jammed-up state of confusion that creates, we become even more vulnerable to the next source of distraction that comes along.

Others are run by people like the man I met in L.A. who too often seem to be playing out their own traumas and internal stigma on people too raw and fragile to argue back.

If your environment is like Rat Park—a safe, happy community with lots of healthy bonds and pleasurable things to do—you will not be especially vulnerable to addiction. If your environment is like the rat cages—where you feel alone, powerless and purposeless—you will be.

Jean tells me the drug dealers he used to work for are "completely against this program. They can control people in weak states and make money from them. If I was still in the criminal milieu, they could make me a killer, I would do anything." As he said this, I thought of Chino and Rosalio. "But now? No. I am lost for them.

Die Gefahr[...] ist die poetische Ballfrisur der Liebe, und die hat sie auch höchst nöthig, denn in der Schlafhaub'n der Alltäglichkeit nimmt sich diese Himmelstochter miserabel aus.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

But you will never know another's heart, unless you are prepared to give yours too.

I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.