Quotes About Vulnerability

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

She shook her head, "No, I could tell if they were safe after talking to them for five minutes or so. I was only beaten up twice…" Only twice.

It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more to each other than in bright sunshine. It's easier to whisper your feelings than to shout them from the rooftops. I believe that trust has to come from both sides; I also think that's the reason why we've never really grown close.

VLADIMIR BYKOVSKY, Chuvashia: "Do you allow yourself emotions?" PUTIN: "Unfortunately, I do." DOBROSLAVA

Her face looks like a room with no drapes or shades.

She thought that people sought marriage because it meant they could put aside the mascara, the bravado, the good clothes, the company manners, and be themselves, whatever that was, not try so hard. But what that seemed to mean was that they didn't try at all.