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Vulnerability Quotes

Last updated: May 13, 2020

42 Vulnerability Quotes organized by Most Popular

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be
Tagged: Courage, emotions, vulnerability, Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
Tagged: Baddasses, Pain, vulnerability, strength
“And even when you fear that the whole world knows too much, or that you’ve revealed your deepest secrets, or that you’ve given away a huge chunk of yourself only to be broken again—close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let go. This is the beauty of vulnerability. It’s standing on the edge of a cliff with the definite possibility of falling, but giving away your heart anyways, because there’s an even bigger chance of the wind grabbing ahold of you, and you learning to fly.”
— Marisa Donnelly, This Is For The Girls Who Aren’t Afraid To Be Vulnerable
Tagged: vulnerability, Love, Fearless, Letting Go
“I find a gentle but ferocious strength in being vulnerable. Honesty turns shame into light.”
— Erin Brown, Untitled
Tagged: Honesty, vulnerability
“We choose to heal and we choose to move forward by being brave and vulnerable enough to heal.”
— Desmond Tutu, Learning to Feel and Learning to Forgive
Tagged: Healing, Recovery, Moving On, Bravery, vulnerability
“When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Shame, Narcissism, vulnerability, Acceptance, Belonging, Relationships
“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: vulnerability, Compassion, Bravery, Darkness
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Bravery, Shame, Sensitivity, vulnerability
“There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet.”
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace (Luminous Living) (Volume 1)
Tagged: Love, vulnerability
“When a person can see into your soul, it’s hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable.”
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Tagged: vulnerability, Seeing Beneath The Surface, Weakness, Openness
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”
— Andrea Gibson, Pansy
Tagged: Poetry, Feelings, emotions, strength, vulnerability, andrea gibson, pansy, Writers
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Fear, vulnerability, expression, Self-Expression, Honesty, Opening Up
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: vulnerability, Love, Connection, Relationships
“The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Second, they understand and stay curious about how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are connected in the people they lead, and how those factors affect relationships and perception. And, third, they have the ability and willingness to lean in to discomfort and vulnerability.”
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
Tagged: Discomfort, Leadership, strength, vulnerability, Courage
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Friendship, vulnerability
“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Failure, vulnerability
“There’s something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day you’re a bit more defensive.”
— Alex Turner, Arctic Monkey Alex Turner gives Uncut the lowdown on new LP!- Uncut
Tagged: Writing, vulnerability, Passion, Love, Songs
“I don't want you to leave me when you see my demons. I want you to calm them down, love me when I'm vulnerable.”
— D.S. Kamath
Tagged: vulnerability, Demons, H4D-19
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
— Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Tagged: Willingness, vulnerability, Weakness, Openness
“I’m much softer than people think. I don’t present to the world an emotional face. I’m pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”
— Christopher Lee, Sir Christopher Lee interview: 'I'm softer than people think'
Tagged: Confession, vulnerability, Sensibility, Self-Control
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche on Facebook
Tagged: Change, Change of mind, Uncertainty, vulnerability, Examples of Metaphor
“Everything I sing is something I’ve felt or something I saw someone feel, and I don’t want people to be afraid to feel.”
— Rozes, She Breaks Her Heart To Help Heal Ours: Singer Rozes Shares Her Story
Tagged: Rozes, Rozes Music, Rozes Lyrics, Music, Lyrics, vulnerability, Love
“Be honest with your heart. Hide nothing from yourself.”
— Jacqueline Whitney, Jacqueline Whitney, Diving Into Vulnerability In The Age Of Guarded Hearts
Tagged: Honesty, vulnerability
“I still do not know how to love anyone who won't show their softest side to me. And maybe that makes me a monster, but how can I trust someone without seeing their vulnerability?”
— Nikita Gill, Your Heart Is The Sea
Tagged: vulnerability, Softness
“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: emotions, Detached, vulnerability, Experience
“IT'S OKAY to be sad. IT'S OKAY to feel pain. IT'S OKAY to be vulnerable. We are made to have emotions. Don't be afraid to let it out.”
— Nadine Lustre, via Instagram
Tagged: it's ok not to be ok, Feeling Broken, Feeling Pain, vulnerability, Sadness, emotions, Feelings, Life, Inspirational, Motivational, Being human
“Why is it that loving something provides so little protection from betrayal?”
— Ayelet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
Tagged: Betrayal, vulnerability
“Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.
I open my mouth
and dust spills out
instead of feelings.”
— Gabriel Gadfly, Mouthfuls
Tagged: Tired, Openness, vulnerability, Weakness
“You can’t find intimacy–you can’t find home–when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”
— Junot Dìaz, Junot Diaz Interview- Identity Theory
Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Fear And Love, vulnerability, vulnerability in love
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Tagged: Children, Ideology, vulnerability, Acceptance, Weakness
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
— Criss Jami, Mission: Impossible Briefing I
Tagged: vulnerability, Weakness, Openness, strength
“Loss inherently makes the loser sympathetic. We can easily be made to feel bad for the person on the other side of a true catastrophe, even if just minutes before we thought they had it coming to them.”
— Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Tagged: Human Nature, Looking at Loss, vulnerability, Pity
“I’ve never been this vulnerable to myself. I feel like I graduated almost.”
— Ariana Grande, Ariana Grande Found Stable Ground Where There Was None
Tagged: vulnerability, Being True To Yourself, Growth, Self-Acceptance
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Courage, vulnerability, Showing Up, Self-Love
“I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.”
— banksy, A quote by Banksy
Tagged: Sleep, Weakness, vulnerability, Opinion
“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”
— Dae D. Lee
Tagged: Relationship, vulnerability
“We’re often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection.”
— Gabby Bernstein, via twitter.com
Tagged: vulnerability, Human Connection, Connection, Life, self, self-realization, self-reflection
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty, expression, Self-Expression, vulnerability
“I cannot help but love people who know the pain I feel.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Tagged: Love, Pain, vulnerability, Stories, Community
“You have to trust in the bigger part of yourself that knows you are MORE than what you look like. You have to be willing to get real, raw, and vulnerable.”
— Jenn Hand, 3 Ways to Feel Good Naked
Tagged: Feel Good Naked, looks, vulnerability
“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.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Love, vulnerability, Growth
“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”
— Édouard Boubat, Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye
Tagged: vulnerability, Untouchable, Alone, Solitude, Weakness