Quotes About Vulnerability

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could havepoured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn'tthat what normal mothers and daughters did?

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Only the insecure strive for security.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

When your afraid of somethingyou hide behind a mask.It might be to protect yourself, But if you hide long enoughthen you forget who you really are.You must come out.

The more you understand who you are the less chance your enemies have to bring you down