Quotes About Vulnerability

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I'm human.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.