“I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.”
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Vulnerable Quotes — page 3 of 73
“I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.”
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
“I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.”
“Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.”
“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”
“I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.”
“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
“I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.”
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
“Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.”
“I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.”
“The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
“Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.”
“It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.”
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”