Amanda Palmer Quotes

I don't really like being vulnerable.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

would you dare to love me?

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

Everyone is scared of getting hurt, but having been there and taken the chance on someone and fallen in love - it's worth getting past all of your heart's reservations, regardless of how things transpire.

You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.

To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. What makes me fearful. I feel vulnerable when I release material, my work, to the world, and I have no control over the outcome. Those are very vulnerable moments. I'm getting married on Friday.

Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways