#vulnerability

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#awful #because #century #demagoguery #history

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#dignity #humanity #love-and-respect-for-all #vulnerability #attitude

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #vulnerability #change

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it. ↗

— Julien Smith

#change-the-world #changing #protection #vulnerability #change

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship. ↗

— David Burns

#emotion #feelings #friendship #intimacy #relationships

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable. ↗

— Kate O'Riordan

#dreaming #guard #vulnerability #dreams

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#devil #may #vulnerability #love

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

— Paulo Coelho

#love #vulnerability #love