Quotes About Vulnerability

I used to think heroes were brave and strong but the last look on Robyn's fave was not brave or strong, it was scared and unsure.

Als je nooit over jezelf praat, over wat je dwarszit en zo, dan is dat egoïstisch, omdat je je vrienden geen kans geeft om te helpen.

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

guards, while the ferret searched his pitiful left

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

when you're young, you feel invulnerable. I don't feel invulnerable anymore.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move. A friendship is a space where you're supported and free to make mistakes. I think when you reach this understanding a lot of things are going to feel better for you.

This is the first real conversation we're having and already I'm burdening you with my emotional baggage.

real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move. A friendship is a space where you're supposted and free to make mistakes.

Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come so close to me- nobody had ever seen me, and come right up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so seriously, with so little fear?

She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline's spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.

You need to choose bravery over shame," Leanne says. "Humility over pride.

compassion, thoughtful opinions. He admits when he's wrong; he admits when he doesn't know. This is why their friendship has lasted while so many others have fallen away.

Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of

Someone once told me that having a child was like having your heart walk around outside of your body.

As though a sweater had a snag and he pulled at it, or she did, and one by one the stitches came undone until it was a pile of yarn at their feet.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Falling in love often is crucial. You just have to let it nourish you without giving in to it. Why turn it off entirely? Why deaden any part of yourself? Won't death do that for you, and soon enough?

I won't take your crap, you ungrateful little shit! You think the world owes you something? The world owes you nothing! THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING! My heart slammed: fight or flight? Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on . . . neither? Couldn't breathe. Tried to say help but it came out a stupid squeak.

You saved yourself, gorgeous, Crisp said. You just needed a little help laughing about it.

did you know it's almost impossible to feel aggression when you're holding an infant?

Let even your deficits be your offering.