Quotes About Vulnerability

Friendship includes talking others off their ledges, and letting them talk you off yours. — Jenni Davenport

Protective coverings are meant to be taken advantage of. — Julie Durham —

Second, agree to acknowledge your anger to each other. When you are angry with each other, give the other the benefit of knowing what you are feeling. Otherwise, the spouse must guess based on your behavior. Such "guessing games" are a waste of time and usually not very accurate.

Human nature often impels us to look at others in our lives and cry, But you don't care. I can only love you if you love me. Our human nature tends to withhold and wait to give until we're sure we'll get benefits for our emotional time and trouble. But how contrary human nature is to true love! When we long for someone to change, sometimes the best step to take is the first step - acting not on the way things are but on the way we wish a relationship to be.

Fear cannot stand in the face of true love. — Agnes Lawless Elkins

The more passionate the defensive response, the more deeply self-worth has been threatened.

All of us have areas in which we feel insecure. We lack courage and that lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things we would like to do.

Nuestra necesidad emocional más básica no es enamorarnos, sino ser amado de verdad por el otro, conocer un amor que brota de la razón y de la decisión, no del instinto. Necesito que me ame alguien que decida amarme, que vea en mí algo digno de amar.

Opening our lives to others takes courage but can yield bountiful love. — Laura Chevalier

Love is not the answer to everything, but it creates a climate of security in which we can seek answers to those things that bother us. In the security of love, a couple can discuss differences without condemnation.

When a wife says, "I wish my husband would talk. I never know what he's thinking or feeling," she is pleading for intimacy.

You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

They drank a cheap Hungarian riesling that spelled "headache" after the third glass. They held hands. The lights were going out at the Garibaldi nursing home across the street, a five-story residence built in the sixties to prove how closely a building could resemble Formica.

LOVE TAKES OFF MASKS THAT WE FEAR WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT AND KNOW WE CANNOT LIVE WITHIN.—JAMES BALDWIN

In Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, we read: An oyster opens wide at full moon. When the crab sees this, it throws a pebble or a twig at the oyster to keep it from closing and thus have it to feed upon. Da Vinci adds the following suitable moral to this fable: Like the mouth that, in telling its secret, places itself at the mercy of an indiscreet listener.

The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. Soon

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido

I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.