Quotes About Vulnerability

I don't think that we should underestimate the capacity of tenderness that poetry opens within us.

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

It shames man not to feel man's human fear, It shames man only if the fear subdue

It turned out that many women dropped out of Dr. Felitti's weight loss program because losing weight made them feel unbearably anxious and vulnerable. Their girth helped them to feel safe, beyond a man's desire to assault them. So, even though they knew that their obesity put them at risk for disease, they did not want to give up the protection they felt it afforded them.

worry results from a heightened sense of vulnerability in the presence of a diminished sense of power.

You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again...

Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

This time he was going to fall apart silently.

I built myself a house of glass: It took my years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it. But it looks too magnificent. No neighbour casts a stone From where he dwells, in tenement Or palace of glass, alone.

Ik rende naar de badkamer en kotste alles er boven de wasbak weer uit. Dat luchtte op. Ik spoelde mijn mond en strompelde terug naar het bed. Even later hoorde ik mijn vader roepen: 'Shit, Max, shít! Kon je het niet even opruimen?' 'Pa,' zei ik, 'ik ben ziek.' 'Het stinkt! Ik laat het wel liggen!' 'Jij laat niks liggen!' riep mijn moeder van beneden.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that "arrogant," "headstrong," "narcissistic," and "cold" will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.

Fear attracts attack.

A risky risk of all risks in the context of rejection and acceptance is expressing and confessing love.

Beauty attracts everyone, and as a result, it faces all risks of evil eyes.

Falling can result in bone fracture, but falling in love can break the heart; it is an invisible fracture that may stay forever.

Love trusts blindly; it is such a risk that takes everyone blindly.

One can love whoever and whenever it wants; however, expecting similar feelings from that whom it loves, is a risk of self-hurting.

Please pray for me. I am going to fall in love.