Quotes About Vulnerability

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don't feel like it—say no, thanks. Don't fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.