Quotes About Vulnerability

Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

treatment had begun, things were more advanced than anyone had suspected. It shook Sara to the core how quickly it all happened. Her mother never complained of any pain she might have had. When she started feeling under the weather, she made an appointment with the doctor, figuring it was only a virus.

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks

Our criticisms of others therefore have a side benefit. They provide an unintentional glimpse at what is ugliest within us.

In Hal Gregersen's study of business leaders who question, he found that they exhibited an unusual "blend of humility and confidence"15—they were humble enough to acknowledge a lack of knowledge, and confident enough to admit this in front of others.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

The freedom to be honest and the freedom to struggle are key to a real friendship," John said.

Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

I was starting to understand that the more you talked about something the less it hurt, each telling deflating it a little bit more. That was why we had to say it out loud at the beginning of every meeting: My name is Delia and I'm an addict. It was so we could stop flinching and just live with it. (72)

Everything is fragile; everything is breaking.

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Life does not get better so long as we avoid the pain that spurs us to evolve. We do not develop emotionally, because we block out our feelings rather than bear them. We cannot become fluent in intimacy, because we keep ourselves hidden. We do not become confident, because we duck challenges rather than do the kind of work that instills self-worth. There are no shortcuts to life's bounty.

Seeing Henry cry made Max start crying. Then the Candymaker joined in. That did it; Logan was done for. They all huddled together and sobbed and beamed at each other and laughed and sobbed some more.

Then he took one look around the room, dropped his briefcase with a thud, and burst into tears.