Quotes About Vulnerability

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

They fear as I once feared you, " he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina

In the world of lovers, there is no fear.

i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow 'within' and disclose our 'true' self. ("Everybody his story")

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

Bravery could only be found inside of fear. So she bore the feeling. After all, it was just a feeling.

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

The expression of your heart is beating beneath your fears

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.