"It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough."

--

Rihanna

#Tough Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes

“If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?”
“Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss. Something about the tentativeness of it made me feel beautiful. Without a word, I could understand how excited he was to have this moment, but then afraid at the same time. And deeper than any of that, I sensed that he adored me. So this is what it felt like to be a lady.”
“This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
“The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.”
“Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.”

Source : Eileen Myles (2016). “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014”, p.138, Profile Books
“I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.”
“The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimate a part of experience as happiness and necessary in order to render happiness appreciable, or that it is more advantageous to be young than to be old: those still took me a long time to pry loose for reexamination.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press
“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.”

You may also like:

Beyonce Knowles
Recording Artist
Chris Brown
Recording Artist
Drake
Rapper
Justin Bieber
Musician
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
Nicki Minaj
Rapper
Selena Gomez
Actress
Shakira
Singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift
Singer-songwriter