Quotes About Vulnerability

Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don't call your mistakes 'Regrets'Call them 'Lessons

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.""I hardly think there's any chance of that, " Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

I think I like you, " I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear."I think I like you back.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Forse perché la derisione è una forma di difesa per chi la usa, contro il pericolo della solitudine? Perché si deride in compagnia, mentre chi suscita il riso resta immancabilmente da solo?

There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks a woman, "You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you're hiding." I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I have failed you.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.