Bragas A La Quotes & Sayings

A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection. — John Welwood

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz

When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm — Max Brooks

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself — Haruki Murakami

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish. — Joel Osteen

Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed. — Guy Gavriel Kay