“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 40 of 73
“All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.”
“I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.”
“Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into that warm, cradled state reminiscent of childhood that's so seductive to a woman - a home.”
“I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.”
“I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.”
“In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.”
“It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.”
“Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.”
“You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.”
“There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.”
“I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.”
“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.”
“I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.”
“This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.”
“I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.”
“Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.”
“I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.”
“If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.”
“My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.”