I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.
I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.
I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.
An honest man is always a child.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.
They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Life does not forgive weakness.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.
