Varlamov Slide Quotes & Sayings

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without. Vulnerability is not a choice. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever-present, and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature. The attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not, and most especially, to close off our understanding of the grief of others. More seriously, in refusing our vulnerability, we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential title and conversational foundations of our identity. — David Whyte

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many — Elbert Hubbard

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are. — Pete Seeger

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann

One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love. — Jose Luis Peixoto

Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity! — Timothy Pina

In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time. — Wendell Berry