Quotes About Vulnerability

When you have 16 or 17 attempts, when you have so many opportunities to score in the first 60 or 70 minutes and you don't do it, the opponent can score. The opponent can hurt you.

So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

My movie now, to me, is going to help so many people to realize that it is okay to ask for help. It took me so long to be able to ask for somebody to help me.

I've met so many people who have come up to tell me their personal stories, and a lot of them express the same feelings that I have, especially reading things online.

I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world, inspiration can flow.

courage is not about being fearless—it's about owning your fear and using it to move you forward, to give you strength.

to be exposed when you are performing is where your true strength resides.

when a baby or a child or an adult is on the table with his or her chest open, disaster is never more than a breath away, no matter how routine or simple the case may be. One small breath.

It amazes me that people won't even talk about it anymore. They're afraid or ashamed to show their vulnerability to this higher power. They don't want to reveal that they are not all-powerful themselves.

You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you protect yourself, you will never be free.

When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked. Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject.

Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our arses.

La presunción es nuestra enfermedad natural y primera. La más frágil y discutible de las criaturas es el hombre, y a la vez la más orgullosa

KuÅŸand???m?z z?rhlar?n yüreklerimizi kat?laÅŸt?rmas? hiç de gerekli deÄŸil; s?rt?m?z?n kat?laÅŸmas? yeter.

Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.