Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.
At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.
This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.
Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.
Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
Being barefoot makes me feel vulnerable.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
I am desperate and vulnerable. . . . I am always terrified. . . . Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.
I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.
Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?
The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.