Quotes About Vulnerability

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.