Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.
Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're ang...
(n.) The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will continue. Yet this partnership lasts only if both parties remain committed to being loving. Not everyone...
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself
If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. I...
I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.
I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people....
Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open
People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time.
Great moments are full of naked vulnerability, words merely reflect a primal or instinctual footprints that leaves trails of dust for those brave enough to follow
They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginnin...
Few of us enter romantic relationships able to receive love. We fall into romantic attachments doomed to replay familiar family dramas. Usually we do not know this will happen precisely because we hav...
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.
It's only in the last few years that I've learned that playing down the exciting stuff doesn't' take the pain away when it doesn't happen. It also creates a lot of isolation. Once you've diminished th...
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own...
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