Quotes About Vulnerability

It is for such reasons that trust is vital: but trust of the mature and tragic sort. A naive person trusts because he or she believes that people are essentially or even universally trustworthy. But any person who has truly lived has been—or has—betrayed.

I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me. So, I will accept substantial risk to open the door to cooperation and negotiation.

It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).

Me hicieron falta décadas para entender lo que esto significa, para entender una parte de lo que significa. Viene a ser así: una vez que eres consciente de tu propia vulnerabilidad, entiendes la naturaleza de la vulnerabilidad humana en general. Entiendes lo que significa el dolor. Y una vez que entiendes este tipo de sentimientos en ti mismo y cómo se producen, entiendes cómo suscitarlos en otras personas.

If you really loved me, you would brave the terrible landscape that I have arrayed around myself to discover the real me.

Life is suffering. The Buddha stated that, explicitly. Christians portray the same sentiment imagistically, with the divine crucifix. The Jewish faith is saturated with its remembrance. The equivalence of life and limitation is the primary and unavoidable fact of existence. The vulnerability of our Being renders us susceptible to the pains of social judgement and contempt and the inevitable breakdown of our bodies.

Humanity, in toto, and those who compose it as identifiable people deserve some sympathy for the appalling burden under which the human individual genuinely staggers; some sympathy for subjugation to mortal vulnerability, tyranny of the state, and the depredations of nature.

Život je patnja. Buddha je to vrlo jasno rekao. Krš?ani to prikazuju slikovito, raspe?em samoga Boga. Židovska vjera obiluje prisje?anjima na tu istinu. Istovjetnost izme?u života i ograni?enja jedna je od primarnih i neizbježnih ?injenica postojanja. Ranjivost našega Bi?a ?ini nas podložnima bolima društvenoga prosu?ivanja, prijezira i neminovna sloma naših tijela.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

No wonder I worried about talking dirty; talking in general seemed to escape me.

And besides, my back feels naked without Jacob curled against it.

Jacob slid down my body and knelt in front of me. The two of us were wedged into the narrow lane between the and the dresser. He took the front button of my shirt into his mouth. I heard a snap. He spat, and a button pinged to the floor. He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.

I don't feel brave. I feel like a galloping idiot, stumbling from crisis to crisis, barely able to speak to any normal person

Alguien había dicho en el viejo pasado que, con las máquinas, el hombre iba a perder algo muy preciado: su intimidad.

La gente te hace daño cuando sabe que puede hacerte daño. Si le quitas la oportunidad, la desarmas.

El que se avergüenza de los sentimientos está perdido. No va a encontrarse nunca.

El amor es lo único a lo que no se puede renunciar, porque está ahí, siempre. Aparece y desaparece a su antojo sin que puedas hacer nada...Las personas buscan el amor lo mismo que las plantas al sol.

Sé fuerte, sé fuerte, pero después cede y rómpete.

Las almas como la de María ignoran el lenguaje mundano del amor; pero se doblegan estremeciéndose á la primera caricia de aquél á quien aman, como la adormidera de los bosques bajo el ala de los vientos.

Statistisch gezien was op 11 september 2001 om kwart voor negen 's ochtends de kans dat twee vliegtuigen zich in het World Trade Centre zouden boren vrijwel nul.

Why were you following me? Or were you after me? No, you weren't after me. It was just that someone, and the someone had to be you, was upsetting the balance of the emptiness of my nights, in which nothing could touch me - not even memories, not even desire - in which there was no other presence to threaten my vulnerability.