“Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 14 of 73
“I am too pure for you or anyone.”
“People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.”
“The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.”
“It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.”
“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”
“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”
“I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.”
“Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.”
“You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.”
“Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.”
“My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.”
“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”
“I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.”
“We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.”
“A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.”
“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.”
“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.”
“Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.”
“People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.”