I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn’t hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...
It felt like those moments when you go to a party and you're standing around for a long time, going, I don't fit in here, what am I going to talk to these people about? And everybody's getting drunk, and then you find this one person, and you end up sitting in some corner talking about all these arcane things.
And then before you know it you're having a conversation about the meaning of life and it's four o’clock in the morning. That kind of feeling, that kind of intimacy — I felt like that's what I got from YA.
Tag: vulnerability intimacy ya young-adult-fiction junot-diaz
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Brené BrownTag: truth courage weakness vulnerability
Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.
Girl234Tag: love hatred weak weakness vulnerability vulnerable
We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
Nelson MandelaTag: fear children violence responsibility vulnerability
We couldn’t change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable.
Shannon A. ThompsonTag: war change vulnerability helpless
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
Tara BrachTag: truth kindness vulnerability healing listening intimacy
Remember that every person who you come into contact to on any given day has a story that is probably far more amazing than you will imagine and no one is going to just offer up their entire life's worth of experiences to you because you want them to.
It takes time to draw someone's story out from within them. It takes trust. It takes sincerity and dedication.
Keep in mind that each and every interaction you have with all those people on a daily basis is a unique opportunity to develop any kind of relationship with that person that the two of you might want to be a part of.
It doesn't matter how you meet them or what it is that you do with them.
It can be as mundane as waving to them in the morning as they leave their driveway, or it can be as huge as saving someone's life in a moment of uncertainty and sacrifice.
Each person has the potential to become a friend or a lover or to simply teach you something important and then slip back into the endless rush of other bodies moving about the planet around us.
Don't pass these chances up too often, or you'll get lost in the tide yourself.
Tag: life friendship love humanity identity people relationships vulnerability
We are all vulnerable but do not fear this, just revel in the chance to experience that
Jay WoodmanTag: fear vulnerability vulnerable
Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open
Jay WoodmanTag: pain openness vulnerability regrets real open vulnerable impervious unapproachable
...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...
John GeddesTag: beauty vulnerability fragility
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