Quotes About Vulnerability

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.

We're all in danger.

Io non ho il coraggio di alzare gli occhi e capisco che veramente sono peggio dell'edera, dove m'attacco muoio e forse c'ha ragione lui che non faccio altro che scaricargli addosso tutte le mie paranoie, cioè dire sempre, fai te che per me è lo stesso.

whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

La foudre abat les monts, non les petites herbes

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.

Visiting anyone post-surgery for the first time can be traumatic.

If we are visiting Afghans, typically the Afghan governor, district or provincial governor, we see he doesn't wear body armor, and yet we're walking through his streets. I'm his guest. I think that that's important that I send a message that I trust him and I don't think I am more valuable than I think he is.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

It's vital that someone with a mental health issue is given the chance to open up to someone and discuss how they're feeling, to help relieve the pressure they may be keeping to themselves.

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.

I remember my doctors examining my vocal cords and asking if I had an eating disorder, and I instantly said no. But then my mom, who was in the room with me, said my name in her 'mom voice,' and I just lost it. I didn't realize that she knew or that anyone knew.

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.