Quotes About Vulnerability

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

People will tell you most of the story… and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Everything makes me nervous." Stevie thought a moment. "Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous." "But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you're half tiger." Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

Electricity. The high priest of false security.

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having your heart carved out.

As soon as a manhas his guard up. he will not fall in love or get attached the only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.

She doesn't realize that she becomes so involved in him that she loses herself, and in the process, she risks losing him as well.

He perceives an emotional woman as more of a pushover.

Talking about the "relationship" too much takes away the element of the "unknown" and thus the mystery.