Quotes About Vulnerability

Truth is dangerous when it concerns you.

Sevgi h?rs?zl??? yapmad?m ömrümde. Bir kad?n yaln?zca beni istedi?i ve ben de onu istedi?im için sar?ld?m ona; kendimi, senin yapt???n gibi "sergilemedim"; senin kafandaki pis dü?üncelerden hiçbiri yok bende küçük adam.

dokunu?lar ili?kilerin sebebi olabilir ve onlar? koruyabilir. dokunu?lar insan? al?p götürebilir ve basbaya?? alt üst edebilir: iyi geliyordur, daha fazlas?n? istersiniz! p.11

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.

As you can guess, this is a test of the readers' vulnerability to stereotypes: do people rate the essay more favorably when it is attributed to a middle-aged man than they do when they believe that a young woman wrote it? They do, of course. But importantly, the difference is larger in the good-mood condition. People who are in a good mood are more likely to let their biases affect their thinking.

The mystery is how a conception of the utility of outcomes that is vulnerable to such obvious counterexamples survived for so long. I can explain it only by a weakness of the scholarly mind that I have often observed in myself. I call it theory-induced blindness:

Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwischen sich und seinem Kind, sie sterben einfach zu schnell. Aber mit jedem Jahr, das vergeht, gewöhnt man sich mehr an so ein Wesen. Man fasst Zutrauen, man erlaubt sich, es teilzuhaben. Und plötzlich ist es weg.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

I think it is much better not to have a goal, but rather to have a path. I think it is much better not to have a goal, but rather to have a path. Taking the path is very vulnerable and threatened by being pulled to the left or to the right, but if you stay on this thin and narrow, straight path, something of an adventure, something of meaning will happen to you

So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

O preço do Amor é o resgate da intimidade

Sin un temperamento científico el ciudadano es vulnerable a la tentación de lo mágico, a la seducción de la pasión y a la tiranía del dogmatismo. Demasiada gente muere por fe y mata por dogma.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next.

Sabiam que andavam a ser caçados e tentavam não se manter muito tempo no mesmo sítio. Mas o medo tornava-os descuidados. O medo tornava-os alvos fáceis.

But it was also a face of many layers. Sensuous and vulnerable, contemptuous and iron-willed. Somewhere a trace of sadness. But it was her energy—her restless, reckless energy—that intrigued him the most and would have been most difficult to capture on canvas. Her eyes flashed about him. Even after the long rehearsal session, her hands could not remain quiet. They

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.

Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.