Quotes About Vulnerability

You have to have that rare combination of thick skin and a tender heart. Most writers get it backward and have a tender skin and a thick heart... Every critic, however ill-informed, represents a point of view which is likely not limited to just him... Sometimes you will disagree with your critic, but you can always gain from him.

Spurgeon once said, "Faults are thick where love is thin.

as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

Memory is ours as long as we live. Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.

Power just means I can hurt you, and you can't hurt me back. That's not what you need from a ruler, even though it devolves into that from time to time. What you want is the kind of wisdom that illuminates the darkness.

What is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Sometimes, we need a few people in our lives who will calmly call our bluff.

You love me and I love you, and your heart hurts, mine does too. And its just words and they cut deep but its our world, its just us two.

Dont know why it happens every time we alone. But here we are again and I swear Im in my zone. So Imma sip this drink until that muhfucker gone, then you go get undressed and we gon get it on.

You got your guards up, I do too, theres things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, were perfect for each other

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

And in this new place in my life- I was sleeping alone for over a year, finding the middle of the bed, and really working on myself- I started to become worried about meeting someone because I was really feeling different than I had ever felt in my life. So strong, and I didn't want anyone to take that away. Someone would have to be the human equivalent of addition and not subtraction. Period.

That thing, that moment when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that person is the only person you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away at the same time.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Don't show your flaws.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

If once you enter the arena of intimacy with someone, you owe them honest explanations to the best of your ability. You must never blank people when intimate relations have arisen; you must never slam the door in their face.

All of us are autumn leaves, ready to fall at any time.

Taking advantage of someone that gives you their everything can be dangerous.

Had I forgotten how to cry? Was that possible? In order to survive, I had long since buried my emotions.

We fought to hide our fear, to maintain our positions as predators rather than victims. In reality, we were all victims.

I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to fight to conceal their misery, fear, and weakness.