Quotes About Vulnerability

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

My life is pretty much an open book.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

You know what freaks me out? Having your personal life live-tweeted so that everyone can make fun of you forever.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

Life is fragile, unless your in the NFL in which case you'll need to wear padding.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.