“There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 15 of 73
“He who is penitent is almost innocent.”
“Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.”
“We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.”
“We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.”
“In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.”
“That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.”
“You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”
“I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.”
“You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.”
“However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.”
“I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.”
“I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me.”
“Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.”
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
“Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.”
“I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.”
“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”
“You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't take. I think I made a very big mistake.”
“It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.”