Vulnerability Quotes

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.

~ Dianna Hardy

September tried to show her sternness. It was becoming a habit. She could show her sternness and think about this another time, when it was quiet and no new red Moon turned somersaults in the sky. But when she reached for her sternness, all September found in her heart was the bar of a trapeze, swinging wild, inviting her to catch it....She leaned up and kissed her Marid and hoped it was the right thing. Her heart caught the bar and swung out, swung wild, over the lights and the gasps below, reaching for a pair of sure blue hands in the air and willing them to find hers.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

~ Kamal Ravikant

True art comes from the anonymous self.

~ Maria Riike

The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.

~ Austin Kleon

Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one’s advantage. They are, however, operated by us – by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?

~ A.j. Darkholme

When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive.

~ Jenny Lawson

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

~ Frank Herbert

Life is fragile.Be cautious in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the building of walls to protect ourselves— we have managed to keep ourselves from the best in this life. And so the line is drawn whether to live and to be broken and unbroken or to breathe but not live at all. Perhaps there is no such thing as brokenness, afterall. Perhaps it is all just called living.

~ C. Joybell C.

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

~ Donald Antrim

You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby.

~ Dawn Gluskin

Vulnerability lets in light.

~ A.d. Posey

We are in this together. None of us truly walk in isolation, even when we cannot sense the presence of another for miles upon miles. Even in the worst of our desolation. Even during our coldest 3am breakdown. Even when we shut out the world and spin in circles until we collapse. Even then the light still gets in. Even then the heart still opens and reaches, tendrils of hope curling and bending toward slivers of light. Upward, outward, in all directions – seeking light at all cost. One way or another, we all grow toward the light.

~ Jeanette Leblanc

If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

~ Brené Brown

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

~ Frank Crane

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

~ Jeffrey Fry

I am a great believer in not pushing each other’s “buttons” just because we know where they are! That’s part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.

~ Angelica Hopes

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part.

~ #Name?

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

~ Daniel Bates

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

~ Richard Rohr

I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores.

~ Alfa H

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

~ Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Sure, you can break a man. Bend his will, even, but be careful with the ones that break easily. Those are the ones you have to keep a close eye on. Those are the ones that play possum and hide in the shadows. Just waiting for their time to strike! That's when you're most vulnerable. When you're surrounded by friends.

~ Joe Reyes

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

~ Natalie Brenner

Our God is vulnerable. He is.This might be striking to some. The prominent view of God is strong, mighty, courageous - not vulnerable. God?Vulnerable? God didn’t only hang naked on a wooden cross, and He didn’t only do that because He loved us - but He did it all first. He made the first move. He initiated the relationship. He didn’t wait for us to clean ourselves up.For while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The foundation of our relationship with God is vulnerability.

~ Cole Ryan

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

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

The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.

~ Joseph Goldstein

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

~ Tara Brach

As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability -- like not knowing what the hell I'm going to do upon arrival -- makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when I'm at home and think I know best what needs to be done. On the road, serendipity is given space to enter my life.

~ Andrew Mccarthy

When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

~ Vironika Tugaleva