When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.

I’m an emotional singer, and I put all of myself into my songs.

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

When you acknowledge that your vulnerability does not absolve anyone of personal accountability, you will heal from those traumas faster and more fully.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help or guidance. There is strength in vulnerability.

The ladies love the luxury That’s why they all fu*k with me

I’d always tried to resist playing the super virility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck

I said goodbye again sucking up all that was left of her into the little that was left of me. I said, ‘don’t look for me again. fuck it. we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye.

You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can’t build it with a hammer, he said.

I never meant to start a war I just wanted you to let me in.

Oh my heart it breaks every step that I take.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s a vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.