Quotes About Vulnerability

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.