“I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 17 of 73
“When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.”
“None of you will ever know what I am thinking.”
“Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.”
“You never know your partner as well as you think.”
“Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”
“Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.”
“I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.”
“I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.”
“The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.”
“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.”
“I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.”
“I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?”
“One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.”
“Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.”
“Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.”
“The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.”
“A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.”
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
“I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.”