Quotes About Vulnerability

He got up and there were both of us in our underwear and this kid goes through the whole thing again, all the closets, the bathroom, everything else and then he left.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they are judging my book by its cover or by preconceived notions.

I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.

Dating is hard enough in the light, so I can't wait to see what unfolds when the lights are off!

When I read my interviews, I feel, is it me? I constantly wonder if someone will get hurt if I say this or that. It is unfortunate that I am scared to say what I feel.

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.

He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.

Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

Negative Confession is not a Choice of words but a Weakness

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.