#fragility

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#walking

...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty... ↗

— John Geddes

#fragility #vulnerability #beauty

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#back #beirut #childhood #city #collapse

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#appreciate #come #first #first impressions #fragility

..It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fragility #dreams

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #vulnerability #love

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#honesty #narrowness #uncertainty #uncertainty

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#fragility #importance #individual #individual life #life