Quotes About Vulnerability

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).