Quotes About Vulnerability

The fact that some people are not as able to communicate concerns about their care must never mean that any less attention is paid to their treatment - or their death.

One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible to infection and with limited mobility.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

I want people to be able to relate to me and the trials and tribulations and struggles that I go through.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.

I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I'm afraid to have a boyfriend. I don't know how to do that and not lose who I want to be. And I'm afraid of what it means to be close to a guy, a guy I might really like."There it was: the truth.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?

He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.