Quotes about Vulnerability

Twitter... can ruin your life.

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

One cannot have an enriched marriage when it is funded by an emotionally and spiritually bankrupt man.

Things that are covered don't heal well.

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

We claim we are not emotional, yet we are so sensitive that a vicious word from a cruel woman can leave the most manly of us impotent! A cutting statement can undermine the strength, vigor, and vitality of even the strongest of men. Most women greatly underestimate the power of their words to magnify or crush their husbands' strength.

No matter how strong we are, there is always something that can cause the heart to flutter and the pulse to weaken.

He alone whom we must trust to see the very worst in us, yet still think the very best of us.

It can be frightening to own your authentic self.