Quotes About Vulnerability

every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction

It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you're seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

Those who own much have much to fear.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside.

"Just wanted to let you know that I love you even though you aren't naked right now."

It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you… man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'

"A woman who opens her heart to love you, when it's already broken, is braver than any person you'll meet."

We always get a re-set. Learn, move forward. We're all imperfect and growing!

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

"If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but… who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."

"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel."

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.