Quotes About Vulnerability

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you're at your weakest.

Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.

In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.