Quotes About Vulnerability

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

To fear love is to fear life.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.