Quotes About Vulnerability

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn't say good-bye, he didn't even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who God really is." -Quoted by Sarah Arthur, Author of The One Year Daily Grind.

Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you. Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you. Don't trust the water, for it will drown you. Don't trust the air, for it will choke you. Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you. Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you, rend you, tear you, kill you dead.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.

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

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.