Quotes About Vulnerability

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Without air, we cannot breathe.

Not only was I embarrassed, frankly, I became offended, not to mention deeply ashamed. A nervousness entered my body and I thought for a moment that I was going to cry. After all, I had never seen that part of a grown man's anatomy, and I suddenly found myself thinking about all the males in my family.

Keiner weinte hier. Sie hatten begriffen, dass die Erwartung von Trost einen schwächer macht, empfänglicher für Bosheit.

Dependence is a two-sided sword…….. it kills the person on either side of it!!!!

The most vulnerable moment for your enemy is when they are thinking that everything is going according to plan.

The need to appreciated should always be backed by the courage to be criticized.

how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.

We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

They don't commit suicide. They don't weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

The truth is that the law enforcement system offers no effective protection for someone like Susan Butlin -- or Carla Samson. None.

When you need to lose control, to let go, to fall apart, I'll give you that. And I'll catch you afterwards. But if you need to be the one in charge, I'll give you that too.

Oh, darling," Niall purred. "You know I'm too shy to wear those little bitty suits." "You would do it for me, though, wouldn't you?" I made my eyes huge and pushed out my lower lip. If I didn't already sleep with a gun under my pillow and a knife under the mattress, I sure as hell would have to now. Niall would try to kill me. I had no doubt.

It had taken time for him to realize that no one was truly self-sufficient, and that those who thought they were merely took refuge in a form of weakness, the weakness of being unable to ask for help and guidance and thus find greater strength in reliance on close friends and comrades.