Quotes About Vulnerability

The cross is the burden of life. It is a place of betrayal, torture, and death. It is therefore a fundamental symbol of mortal vulnerability. In the Christian drama, it is also the place where vulnerability is transcended, as a consequence of its acceptance. [...] By accepting life's suffering, therefore, evil may be overcome. The alternative is hell, at least in its psychological form: rage, resentment, and the desire for revenge and destruction.

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

means that people, unsettled by their vulnerability, eternally fear to tell the truth, to mediate between chaos and order, and to manifest their destiny.

Susceptibility to despair, disease, aging and death is universal. In the final analysis, we do not appear to be the architects of our own fragility.

Me?utim, sama tragedija (shva?ena kao proizvoljna grubost društva i prirode, nasuprot ranjivosti pojedinca) nije jedini - možda ?ak ni prvenstveni - izvor patnje. Treba uzeti u obzir i problem zla. Svijet je ?vrsto protiv nas, to je sigurno, ali ?ovjekova nehumanost prema ?ovjeku nešto je još gore.

A defeated wolf, for example, will roll over on its back, exposing its throat to the victor, who will not then deign to tear it out.

When you love someone, it's not despite their limitations. It's because of their limitations.

If you wait instead until what you are refusing to investigate comes a-knocking at your door, things will certainly not go so well for you. What you least want will inevitably happen—and when you are least prepared. What you least want to encounter will make itself manifest when you are weakest and it is strongest. And you will be defeated.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.

El reconocimiento del yo desnudo, expuesto de manera indigna a los estragos del tiempo y el mundo, insoportable y altamente motivador, condena al hombre y a la mujer a llevar una carga y a sufrir por la vida y la muerte.

The poor and stressed always die first, and in greater numbers. They are also much more susceptible to non-infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.

Are you so sure that your partner would be unhappy if more of you rose to the surface? The femme fatale and the anti-hero are sexually attractive for a reason….

This is equally true of human neighbourhoods, when bird flu viruses and other illnesses sweep across the planet. The poor and stressed always die first, and in greater numbers. They are also much more susceptible to non-infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.

Living things are always to be found in places they can master, surrounded by things and situations that make them vulnerable.

Your current knowledge has neither made you perfect nor kept you safe. So, it is insufficient, by definition--radically, fatally insufficient.

But it is not easy to distinguish between someone truly wanting and needing help and someone who is merely exploiting a willing helper.

If you truly love someone, it can seem a deep form of betrayal to stay integrated and healthy, in essence, in their absence or sadly waning presence. What does that ability indicate, after all, about the true depths of your love? If you can witness their demise and survive the loss, does that not imply that the bond was shallow and temporary, and even replaceable? If you were truly bonded, should not it destroy you (as it sometimes does)?

Too much protection devastates the developing soul.

If you hold out your hand than you're inviting the best part of that person to step forward and that won't happen unless you take that initial step and that's courage, not naivety. So to trust someone once your eyes are open that's an act of courage and that opens up the world.

Money will also make you a target for predators and psychopaths, who thrive on exploiting those who exist on the lower rungs of society.

It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death.

If someone is badly hurt at some point in life—traumatized—the dominance counter can transform in a manner that makes additional hurt more rather than less likely.

And maybe these responses are tests, too—tests deeply associated with the lack of courage to trust: "If you really loved me, you would brave the terrible landscape that I have arrayed around myself to discover the real me." And perhaps there is even something to such claims, implicit though they may be. A certain testing of commitment might have its utility.

If you stick your neck out, then the sword will come.