Quotes About Vulnerability

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one's own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."