Quotes About Vulnerability

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Likevel har jeg alltid insistert på å ha hatt en løkkelig barndom – jeg tør faen ikke annet. Hvis jeg først sku åpna døra inn til hemmelighetenes kott, er jeg redd det ville velta ut mange øgler og slimete padder – og det har jeg pokker ikke mot til.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Being out of control is hard for anyone, but it's especially discombobulating for men, who are supposed to know everything and be in control all the time.

Amar exige coragem e hoje somos todos covardes.

art is risk made visible

After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.' 'Why not?' asked Frog. 'Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why.' said Toad.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn't need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn't like.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Here is a terrifying system-wide purview: crime, disease, environment, and politics all obey a heinous logic of unknowable dormancy, so that we know them only when they explode, when they present the bill, when the damage is done. It is the damage that constitutes our knowing.

De mens is een zoogdier dat zich er niet bij kan neerleggen dat er geen veiligheid bestaat en die dat tekort compenseert met een intense verspreiding van huiselijkheid.

Is that you? When you fail, are you too humiliated or ashamed to ask for help? When you suffer, are you too embarrassed to ask for more support and comfort?

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The only courageous act is to speak in the first person.

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

I computer sono inaffidabili, ma gli uomini ancora di più.

When you are honest and humble about your weaknesses, you will be more comfortable in your own skin. When you use your weaknesses to connect with others, love in your life will grow. And finally—finally—you will be able to relax without worrying about being exposed as less than people think you are. To share your weakness without

Sharing weakness is hard because it is the ultimate act of subversion against your special, objectified self. You won't go down without a fight!

Another way to understand Brown's point is that, as we all know, defensiveness is a terrible quality and never helps us. The right goal is defenselessness.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.