Quotes About Vulnerability

She'd succumbed to him, crumbled like bits of rocky shoreline against the waves.

A heart of stone could never break. But it could feel fear.

He didn't know why—he was certainly no prize for any woman—but she wanted him there. And he just wanted her. He knew that now. He accepted it. He felt lighter owning that fact. He wanted her around him. He wanted her under him, and he wasn't going to pretend differently anymore.

Love brought out the worst in people, gave them free license to abuse each other.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

When you marry, you marry the whole person — not just the parts above the waterline. You get both the silk sails and the barnacles.

Your Sangha is out there. It might not take the form of a Buddhist community. That's okay. Find your people, who you trust, with whom you feel safe. I don't just mean safe on the surface. But safe in a way that when they come to you with observations they make about things you are unwittingly doing to hurt yourself, you will be able to listen deeply—not shrink away in defense— learn from them, and ultimately alleviate your suffering.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

I say, drop all your defenses. Anyone can make a mistake — even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, that is when you will be completely strong.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

When you bring puppies home, it can take a few days before they feel comfortable enough to be themselves. The move from the breeder to your house is emotionally trying and it makes them exhausted and super docile. When they get comfy with you and their surroundings, they just become normal puppies, and everything that goes with that.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

You have become like us,disgraced and mortal.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

Is truth here In the ugly unseemliness? The graceless moments Before and after Eyes are watching? In the unballerina The unperformed?

Her body disappears like my voice When I look too closely in the mirror Without the pages of a notebook, a pen To save me.