Quotes About Vulnerability

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.