Quotes About Vulnerability

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

It was possible that I could stop assuming that no one could handle the whole mess of me and give them a chance to surprise me instead.

A cold feeling crept through my body and settled on my skin in a cool sweat as I realized: the person I counted on most in the world was just as powerless as I was.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

Ne volim ljude koji se izvla?e iz sveta kao kišne gliste. Bez ožiljka i bez ogrebotine. Komedijaši. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Ožiljkom jednim oboga?en.

El ser humano necesita la confrontación para descubrir lo que hay en su corazón. Una vez descubierto su secreto tiene la opción de endurecerse o quebrarse, si escoge lo segundo encontrará la liberación del alma.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life." -Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

Please understand: I wear glasses. This was no place for a man with glasses.

I lay, shamefaced and embarrassed, in my bed. Which is a deeply unusual place for me to feel shamefaced and embarrassed, and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody liar.

I didn't know how to feel. I'd been rebuffed. I hadn't even been trying to buff.

Es increíble que una persona que acaba de entrar en tu vida pueda demostrarte más sentimientos que otras personas que han estado ahí siempre…

Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

Je me souviens de mon effroi devant un premier baiser. Et si l'autre me mangeait la langue? C'est d'abord mon meilleur morceau de viande que je lui confie aveuglément.

Before the earthquake, medicine was hard to find. When you went to the hospital, you had to bring your own. In this country, you don't go there until the pain becomes unbearable. Otherwise, you don't consider yourself sick. It's better not to be sick if you can't pay for the medicine. That way, you go from bring in good health to being dead. Illness is a luxury you can't afford if you don't have the means. So you die without ever having been sick.

Les blessures dont on a honte ne se guérissent pas.

The wounds we are ashamed of never heal.

The cold numbs before it kills.

He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn't want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching in my chest that surprised me, and my eyes were watering up against my will.

Što god ti rekao, vjeruješ u ljubav. Potrebna ti je. Jednoga dana srest ?eš ženu pred kojom ?eš se rastopiti kad je vidiš. Poželjet ?eš svakog trenutka u danu biti s njom. Stari moj, u želatinu ?eš se pretvoriti.

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Being high felt as if half of me was wandering lost in the streets and half of me was calling out, hoping that I'd make it back before someone took advantage.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.