Quotes About Vulnerability

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.