Quotes About Vulnerability

Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break.

Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control...

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.

I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

If you build your life on one and only person, be prepared for none and lonely life

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong.

We don't own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice.

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.