Quotes About Vulnerability

Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Don´t be afraid of your dark places, Mom told her. If you can shine a light on them, you´ll find treasure there

I know what it's like to be beholden to kin, to be dependent on their kindness, all the while knowing they can cut you off with a snap of the fingers.

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected to the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.

I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.

I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.

Quelquefois je m'approchais pour observer ces boîtes qui se fendaient comme des huîtres et je découvrais la nudité de leurs organes intérieurs, des feuilles blêmes et moisies, légèrement boursouflées, couvertes de veinules noires, qui buvaient l'encre et sentaient le champignon.

I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.