Quotes About Vulnerability

Zodra zij zich blootstelt, beweegt zij zich voort.

ToÈ›i cei care sufer? de complexe de inferioritate au nevoie s? se acopere cu autoritarism È™i s? se apere prin ameninÈ›are È™i teroare, dar când cineva ridic? vocea È™i le È›ine piept, sunt f?cuÈ›i knock-out, neÈ™tiind cum s? reacÈ›ioneze.

Y desnuda, rotísima doncella, tan linda estás, estás tan rica y bella, que matas más de celos y de amores que vestida a colores: y eres así a la espada parecida: que matas más desnuda que vestida.

Y eres así a la espada parecida, que matas más desnuda que vestida.

You have complete permission to enter my mind, probing all my thoughts, looking for whatever you need to know. There is nothing I intend to hide from you. No matter what you will find, either luminous or dark, you can rest assured that in my heart I deeply love you and I want the best for you, and... I do mean you!

When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave. Yet, when you stop being yourself and pretend to be who you are not, there is a much bigger risk: the people who would accept and love you just as you are, may not accept you and leave.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay there on your side nursing like a puppy.

Imagine that our hardships, our hurdles, our demons, our pain were spelled out for everyone around us to see. Imagine that each of us donned a sandwich board that itemized them.

With a more expansive stretch, there's a better chance that I'll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she's smart and beautiful.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

He shouldn't be telling her this. He's using information from my life to give himself power. I loathe that.

Must we be defined by our vulnerability? Must we be fearful? The moment we ask these questions, we are well on the way to intuiting that there is always an alternative…Whether we adopt the philosophy of precaution or embrace a more courageous risk-taking approach depends on how [we perceive] what it means to be a human.

Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them. about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Take my big clear eyes into your heart, and then pump my big clear eyes through your bloodstream, and! stick my big clear eyes on your feet

The winds will wash you out your hair, my dears. Passions will become turrets, to you.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. — Frank O'Hara, from "Meditations in an Emergency," Meditations in an Emergency . (Grove Press; Reissue edition April 1, 1996) Originally published 1957.

Der Herr bewahre uns vor deiner hüllenlosen Ungestalt!

Cuanto más quiero a alguien, más tonto me pongo cuando trato de decírselo. En cuanto a ti, debo de ser el tonto más grande de todos los tiempos

I'd be adrift in an ocean of uncertainty." Yes, and perhaps that's the only honest place to be. Another name for uncertainty is humility. No one ever blew up a mosque, church, or abortion clinic after yelling, "I could be wrong.

Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are