Quotes About Vulnerability

So I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving And you'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving And I'll talk in my sleep and you'll steal all the covers We'll argue it out and we'll call ourselves lovers And I'll stay in my body and you'll stay in your own 'Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone. So we turn out the light while the sirens are screaming And we kiss for the waking, and then join the dreaming.

And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole. I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing, You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

I stare at him, lovestruck. I have just tipped my hand, shown the worst of myself - faithless, foolish, weak as any woman has ever been accused of being - and still he wants me.

And this, I say to you, is the key to a lasting marriage: a spouse who knows and forgives your foibles. It's easy to love strengths....I wish that you should learn to love the worst in each other, too - pride and anger, vanity, fear.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

Living inside an over-sized body, I felt safer than I had in years. But something was missing. My heartbeat, I could no longer feel it beneath the walls of fat and pain." Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

Every protected system created has a vulnerability to outside intervention.

Taking one's self too seriously is a true display of a persons deep seated inadequacies.

Never regret the vultures of friendship.

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.

Men are taught to offer help, but too often we don't know how to receive it, not even from the most natural places.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

You always were a blundering chucklehead! Gullible, Rap! That's what you are! You never would think out what other people really wanted. You always accepted anything anyone said and took it at face value . . .

We're afraid others will see our flaws, weaknesses and insecurities. We're afraid if others really knew us, they would reject us. We feel like fakes and frauds in a world that seems to have it all together.

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation.

As a counselor I have been taught, and I hold it to be a fundamental truth of human nature, that when someone withholds something traumatic it can cause great damage. When

Napoleon said, "The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory.

There are evil people, but they still came weeping from someone's vagina.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.