Quotes About Vulnerability

You are an artist, I am an artist, all the people around you and me are artists. Don't try to hide your scars, highlight them with the brush and you'll become an attractive piece of art

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.

Church can't be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we're afraid to allow others to see our messes. It's got to feel like home.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.