“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
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Vulnerable Quotes — page 18 of 73
“In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.”
“When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.”
“I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.”
“Don't expect me to be perfect. Despite all my lives, I'm still only human. I can't deliver perfection, and I'll only disappoint you. But I want you to know that you are the most important person to me. I'm trying to protect you. Sometimes I screw things up. I may even tell a white lie every now and then. But you have to give me the benefit of the doubt.”
“I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.”
“I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.”
“Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.”
“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
“I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.”
“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”
“If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.”
“If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.”
“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”
“The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.”
“People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.”
“If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.”
“I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.”
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”