Henri Nouwen Quotes

I reveal too much of myself.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I don't really want to talk about relationships because it lets people into stuff. I'm not on Facebook for that reason.

When I'm doing sports, I don't feel anything at all. I enjoy the moment. It's a safe haven. But once you try to let someone inside your soul, you become vulnerable. You have to be comfortable in your own skin. I don't open myself up like that to a lot of people. It takes courage.

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

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

I only show emotion at home, and in my bed.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.