Quotes About Vulnerability

To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Listen to me. I'm shy. I'm not stupid. I can't meet people's eyes. I don't know if you understand what that's like. There's a whole world going on around me, I'm aware of that. It's not because I don't want to look at you, Lucinda. It's that I don't want to be seen.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Prima ho parlato della paura: quel che provavo allora non lo chiamerei paura, comunque non una paura schietta e consapevole, era un disagio quasi fisico, come un prurito che non si può grattare, concentrato sulle parti cieche del corpo, la nuca, la schiena, le natiche.

Mohla bych se mu odevzdat? Odevzdat se, to je pon?kud zvláštní formulace, ale jen a? se muž, kterému není zcela jasná, zkusí nechat sám penetrovat, to mu otev?e o?i.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

What could I do? I was afraid he'd point at me and say 'Him!,' and then lightning bolts would hit me or something" -Chong

Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks

She said, "Look down at your chest." I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart. "You are one second away from death," said the caller.

Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.

Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?

In the car sometimes I'd just start balling my eyes out.

What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience?

roughly translated 2 from the Hmong language of the Laotian mountain people, which observes: "If I know it then I can hunt it; if I do not know it then it can hunt me.

The indication is that participating in the gig economy requires either a base of capital (a vehicle, a room to rent) or technology skills—both of which are associated with higher levels of education—and less vulnerability to income volatility, since higher levels of education are correlated with salaried and non-tipped jobs.

The most recent data available from the U.S. Census's SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two months or more between 2009 and 2011. In contrast, just 10 million people, less than 4 percent of the population, were poor for the entire three years.

Leider and Webber stress that big transitions aren't DIY projects and that, as Webber told me, isolation kills. "It's pretty lonesome inside your own head," Webber said, when I spoke with him about the project. "Everybody's life is an experiment of one, but nobody should have to go it alone.

If we want God to listen to us, we have to be prepared to listen to Him. And if we learn to listen to Him, then we eventually learn to listen to our fellow humans: the silent cry of the lonely, the poor, the weak, the vulnerable, the people in existential pain.

Leadership demands two kinds of courage: the strength to take a risk, and the humility to admit when a risk fails.

That is the nature of Jewish faith – not security but the courage to live with insecurity, knowing that life is a battle, but that if we do justice and practise compassion, if we honour great and small, the powerful and the powerless alike, if our eyes do not look down to the earth and its seductions but to heaven and its challenges, this small, vulnerable people is capable of great, even astonishing, achievements.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything