Quotes About Vulnerability

Sparrow Fur, terrified

Being injured isn't bad, he reflected. It's kind of a relief to have to let some other cat take care of me.

Juniperkit, who had barely taken a breath before he died, and Dandelionkit, who had never been strong, and who had slowly weakened until she also died two moons later.

Alright, good night," he said, his words a little slurred. "But before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

I want to be IMPORTANT to you. Special. He shook his head and gave a soft laugh. Do You know how stupid I feel saying that? I think my balls just dropped to the floor.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Nunca tengas miedo de tus lágrimas. Ningún cobarde llora. Sólo los hombres lloran. Además, hijo, las lágrimas siempre caen de rodillas.

We are gods with anuses.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Don't say that!" I was starting to cry and didn't bother hiding it from her. "Is it because I told you I've never had a real girlfriend? And that I'm a virgin? Because-

rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.

She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.

To quote the Almanac: "People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

Almanac: "People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

When we accept ourselves in all our weakness, flaws, and failings, we can begin to fulfill an even more challenging responsibility: accepting the weakness, limitations, and mixed-up-ed-ness of those we love and respect. Then and only then, it seems, do we become able to accept the weakness, defects, and shortcomings of those we find it difficult to love.

la crucifixión (amarrado a la cruz) y una vez, estando en la cruz, se le cayó a Jesús el trapo que lo cubría y quedó desnudo en pelota

like a delicate butterfly to us, who, carefree and exhilarated, fluttered right into the lamp of life, scorching her fine wings. uns jedoch ein zarter Schmetterling, der, sorglos beschwingt, an der Leuchte des Lebens seine feinen Flügel vor der Zeit verflattert und versengt hat

What is a health which merely makes people ripe to be damaged, abused, and shot at again?