Quotes About Vulnerability

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

I really live my life openly.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

The risk of operating from home offices in terms of cyber attacks is exponentially greater.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

Every intelligence operation carries risks.

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 

I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I really think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.