We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
George MacDonald FraserTags: war vulnerability scarecrows targets
Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am.
Manuel AlegreTags: love poetry weapon vulnerability
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
Sylvia PlathTags: pain vulnerability game-of-love searching-for-love the-bachelor
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.
António R. DamásioTags: mind emotions meaning vulnerability neuropsychology
What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.
Tags: vulnerability healing
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brené BrownTags: inspirational love courage light vulnerability belonging
Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
Gladys TaberTags: love vulnerability
And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.
Christine FeehanTags: love hurt vulnerability
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
Alain de BottonTags: intelligence confidence vulnerability significance professionalism
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
David LevithanTags: love vulnerability young-love
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