Quotes About Vulnerability

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

Let weakness learn meekness.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself..........

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.