Quotes About Vulnerability

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

Working for company X and having a substantial portion of your retirement plan in company X is simply exposing yourself to too much risk, because the company is both your employer and the source of your retirement income. So if something goes wrong, you lose both your job and your retirement plan.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

People who succeed in my job are people who are not afraid to look silly.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Every soul needs to experience authentic, no-holds-barred love. That's why it's important to be vulnerable, to be exposed, to be out there leading with your open heart. No excuses. Too many of us worry about getting hurt, so we block our true feelings, protect our hearts, and hide behind "You have no idea how much I love you.

get through the spring, summer, and autumn living paycheck to paycheck, but during the chilly months of winter, the money ran out and I couldn't pay my rent. The unthinkable happened. I became homeless. I'd sleep in my car and try to keep warm by running the heater or wrapping myself in a quilt Aunt Mae had given me. If I had some cash, I'd crash in a pay-by-the-week hotel room.

child. My fondest memories of times together were our Sunday mornings in church—just the two of us. When we were in God's sanctuary, we could safely open our hearts and let our souls be free and vulnerable. Church was our refuge, and Jesus, as my mother taught me, was our rock.

First there are Leaf People. These are the folks who are in my life only for a season. I can't depend on them or count on them because they have weaknesses of their own and are only able to offer shade. Like leaves, they take what they need and as soon as it gets cold, or a fierce wind blows, or the rain comes, they're gone. I am not angry with them; it's just who they are.

One night I told my mother something that I had kept a secret. I had seen Emmitt touching one of my sister's young girlfriends inappropriately. When I told my mother, the look of panic and shock in her eyes made me feel like I might have shattered her soul. My own heart split open.

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

Love is an excuse to be stupid

All these people who have understood, and who want to be close, perhaps they are the most important people. The ones who dare to come close, and share both pain and pleasure.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.