Quotes About Vulnerability

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

I'm a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

When you put up a personal post on social media, you are putting yourself out there because you are sharing something from your personal life.

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.

People tend to not post when they're at their worst, but I try to be as open as I can be with my fans.

Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.

I post less-than-flattering selfies and don't try to change who I am to make people like me. I try to show people that they don't have to be afraid to show their goofy side.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a loser!' But I didn't need to say it. My face and posture did.

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

Since I had children, I cry all the time - I just had a little cry in 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.'

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Maudlin scenes where people pour their heart out to one another? I don't want to see it.

I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

Cancer can catch even the best of us off guard. Sometimes the emotions come pouring out. Sometimes they stay locked inside.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.