Quotes About Vulnerability

El enemigo es el miedo, la armadura es el amor.

We plead for help from eyelashes, dandelions, pennies, wishbones and shooting stars. And then some of us have the nerve to get down on our knees and clasp our hands. What must it be like to be so brave and bereft at once? To drop all one's defences? It's one thing when a chicken bone is deaf to your deepest desires, but it must be something else when God goes silent.

It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Whoever first said it was right: old age is not for sissies.

God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.

Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

If anything ever happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. You're all I have, August. I don't want

We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

IfI had never met them, I never would've known what it was like to run all out...or to cry with all my heart and laugh with all my heart...To say nothing of the way it feels to wish so much for another person's dream to come true. I never would've known what it's like to want something with all my heart. I want him to know that if I hadn't met him that day in addition to all the various new emotions I've felt,I never would've known this one overflowing in my heart. " -Haruhi

The world glitters in the distance... but the closer I get the more I see that everyone is fragile and clumsy... and trying their hardest.

Sometimes it seems ... as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

If you catch him, hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil, an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids one tear, his only possession, like the bee's sting, slips. Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over, cool as from undergrouns springs and pure enough to drink.

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

Who would have known That a boy like him Would have entered me lightly Restoring my blisses Who would have known That a boy like him After sharing my core Would stay going nowhere

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he

You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.

I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so open and my awkwardness and embarrassment were so clear and understandable. I was extremely watchable.