Quotes About Vulnerability

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I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control. His

I knew better than anyone how sometimes you just needed to be allowed to feel sad.

Cómo es que tienes derecho a destrozarme la vida pero yo no tengo ningún poder en la tuya?

I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn't loved me enough to stay in it. And now I was too afraid to love a man who might love me, in case . . . In case what?

being a parent on your own when you were totally out of your depth was actually the loneliest place on earth.

And I thought that even before I had sex with him.

What we learn through sharing our memories and our sadness's and our little victories with each other is that it's okay to feel sad. Or lost. Or angry. It's okay to feel a whole host of things that other people might not understand, and often for a long time. Everyone has his or her own journey. We don't judge.

Alors voilà, nous y sommes. Tu es gravée dans mon coeur, Clark. Tu l'as été dès le premier jour où tu es arrivée avec tes fringues à la con, tes blagues moisies et ton incapacité absolue à dissimuler ce que tu ressens. Tu as changé ma vie infiniment plus que cet argent ne pourra changer la tienne.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

The more you open to connection, the more you get. The more you believe you are worthy of connection, the more connection appears in your life.

There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

The confusion, frustration, stress, and fears that come with financial dilemmas can make even the most ethical of individuals vulnerable to bad choices.

Standing close to each other, intimately close, blind to anyone else, their world reduced for the moment to this self-enclosed space of anger and resentment and shame.

Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it.

I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?

when Jesus was crucified, "the image of God was one of absolute vulnerability.

SITUATIONAL INTIMACY: Intimacy generated by a shared situation rather than a romantic or familial relationship, as when random train or airliner seatmates share their innermost secrets.

För alltid ska de stå där, Rasmus och Bengt, nakna, unga, med muskulösa brunbrända kroppar, i detta ögonblick av frihet och lycka när ingenting i världen kunde besegra dem.

Stående i kalsongerna mitt på golvet i sitt gamla pojkrum, med ansiktet svullet av gråt och brist på sömn och med rösten darrande av rädsla och beslutsamhet. "Jag är homosexuell. Så. Nu vet ni.

Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar.

Klockan var tio över tolv, det var ett nytt år, vi hade träffat varandra, vi hade hittat någon som fick oss att känna oss mindre halva, en person som inte var perfekt,men vi ville inte ha perfektion, vi var trötta på perfektion, mitt äktenskap hade varit fem års jakt på det perfekta och inte en enda gång hade jag känt mig lika levande som när jag stod där fuktig på en hemmafest i Bagarmossen.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.