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Vulnerable Quotes — page 19 of 73
“I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.”
“Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.”
“I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.”
“I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.”
“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.”
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
“One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.”
“I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated.”
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
“Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”
“One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.”
“I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.”
“Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.”
“You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.”
“Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.”
“I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on me. What I do find challenging is to forgive people for the harms they inflict on my daughters and family. So, I find it challenging when I see somebody else experience hurt. I also look at my children and family and then I realize, I don't stand inside their skin and that is for me a forgiveness practice I still need to engage in.”
“I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart”
“I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.”
“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”