“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 6 of 73
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
“Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?”
“Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.”
“Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.”
“We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.”
“I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way”
“There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”
“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”
“If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.”
“I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.”
“I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.”
“Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.”
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
“Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
“I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.”