Quotes About Vulnerability

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that's a good thing I don't know.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.