Quotes About Vulnerability

how dismal it is to have no one to go to in the morning to share one's griefs and joys; how hateful when something weighs on you and there's nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I refer. I often tell to my pianoforte what I want to tell to you.

It's a blessing when the person you love shows the kind of instincts you'd hoped they'd have when push comes to shove. Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick. And if you're blessed, those around you will rise to the occasion in your hour of need.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Yo no era un monstruo. La primera muchacha que me hubiese amado habría hecho de mí lo que hubiera querido.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.

Just for a moment Neverfell felt as if there were an invisible wire pulled to razor tautness between her and the other girl, humming tension into the room. If she blundered towards it, it might snap or cut her, and yet she half wished it would, so that she knew where it was.

Fear made everyone look very alive in a strange and fragile way, like the last flare of a candle before it dies.

He did not look at her. He did not need to. Over the years she had built a special palace of the mind for him, and he had helped lay every brick. Now he could feel its golden walls tumbling. If he looked into her face, he would see hurt, bewilderment and the painful, necessary birth of doubt.

Every step she took seemed to show her a new danger. Talking to strangers could kill her. Failing to remember table etiquette could kill her. Ignorance could kill her. And now it seemed that stepping outside the tasters' chambers for a stroll could kill her.

If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life. Afterwards, it was as if some understanding of the world had sunk into Makepeace's soul like winter dew. She knew that she would never feel safe or loved as she had before. And she knew that she would never, ever beg that way again.

She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger and more powerful people who cared nothing for her. She had always been afraid, and her fear had made her angry.

Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions.

But I'm afraid to sleep!" whispered Trista. "What if I fall to pieces before I wake up? What if tomorrow morning I'm just a pile of leaves and sticks tucked under a blanket? What if this is the last time I've got left, and I waste it all being asleep, then wake up dead?

His gaze made her feel like a mouse in owl-country.

Everyone on the Myriad was always one divine whim away from annihilation.

He felt worse than naked in front of them, as if something had torn out his middke and left him a ridiculous doughnut boy that everyone could look right through.

Makepeace did not know who the 'others' might be, but others were always a threat.

A tree can grow two hundred years, and look like it'll last a thousand more - but when lightning strikes at last, it burns.

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

El amor es una bella flor, pero hay que ir a buscarla al borde de un precipicio.

Get rid of the things that make you fragile We're taking the negative route for this exercise. Ask yourself: What makes me fragile? Certain people , things , and habits generate losses for us and make us vulnerable. Who and what are they? When we make our New Year's resolutions, we tend to emphasize adding new challenges to our lives. It's great to have this kind of objective, but setting " good riddance " goals can have an even bigger impact.